Tag: pandemic
Ban on layoffs in Argentina to end in December
Due to the economic slowdown resulting from the pandemic-induced mobility restrictions and lockdowns, the Government of Argentina had brought into effect two measures —...
MyGate to hire 200 by March 2022
MyGate, India’s community app, is all set to expand its 130-strong team by 200. The new hires, who will join over the fourth quarter...
Coaching’s role in enhancing institutional performance
The business world has seen a significant shift with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. One of the biggest challenges is maintaining the quality...
HC orders TN government to assess layoffs during pandemic
The Madras High Court has directed that the Tamil Nadu government assess the number of employees laid off by various industrial units during the...
£9.50 per hour will be the national minimum wage in the...
Starting April 2022, the national living wage in the UK will go up. Those over the age of 23 will earn £9.50 an hour,...
23 lakh Indian restaurant workers lost their jobs during the pandemic:...
According to the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), around 32 per cent of those employed in the organised sector of the restaurant and...
Tata cannot sack any Air India employee till 1 year after...
After winning the Air India bid, the Central government has asked Tata Sons to not fire any Air India employee for at least one...
Air India pilots’ union demands restoration of pay cuts imposed during...
Indian Pilots’ Guild (IPG), which is the union of the pilots employed by Air India, wrote a letter to Rajiv Bansal, the recently-elected aviation...
Walmart to hire 1,50,000 to handle festive season rush
Walmart to hire 1,50,000 store employees ahead of the festive season. It will take on at least 1,25,000 workers at its warehouses and for...
Only 27% people inclined towards the hybrid work model: Survey
The hybrid work culture is not as welcome to people as it may appear. A good 70 per cent of the respondents, in a...
Zerodha to pay bonus to staff for physical fitness
Zerodha, the financial services company, has come up with a unique strategy to get its employees to meet their health goals and become fitter.
The...
PF relief till 2022 for some in the formal sector
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the Government will pay the provident fund (PF) share of both employers as well as employees for...
$1 mn in funds for Wishup
Wishup, the 6-year old remote employee platform, received a funding of one million dollars from Orios Venture Partners. The startup will use this capital...
TresVista aims for 2000-strong team by 2023
TresVista, the consulting and outsourcing support firm, is growing steadily in strength. The firm has reached the 1000-employees’ mark in August 2021. It expects...
[24]7.ai to hire 5,000, increase team strength to 8,500
7.ai, the intent-driven customer engagement solutions company, is all set to hire about 5,000 people and increase its team strength in India to more...
Paisabazaar to expand operations, offer 100% WFH, hire regional talent
With the aim of ensuring financial inclusion, Paisabazaar.com, the Indian personal finance platform, is looking to hire from multiple cities over the next couple...
$1,500 bonus for 1.75 lakh+ Microsoft employees
A pandemic bonus of $1,500 has been announced by Microsoft for all its employees, as a gesture of appreciation for their hard work amidst...
IBM, NASSCOM Foundation make 5000 students employable
In a meaningful partnership between IBM and NASSCOM Foundation, about 5000 underserved youth from Karnataka, Telangana and Delhi-NCR have been trained in data science...
Mindtree to hire more, offer hikes
Despite the pandemic, Mindtree managed to take on more than 3,400 people in the quarter ending June 2021. With lucrative deals in the pipeline,...
Nucleus Software to hire fresh engineering graduates from smaller colleges
Nucleus Software Exports, the technology solutions firm catering to the financial sector, is looking to hire over 500 fresh engineers from the smaller cities...
IT-sector staff in Hyderabad may soon see flexibility ending
The Telengana government is expecting people to return to working from office. In fact, by end of September, offices in the information technology (IT)...
Employees at McDonald’s outlet quit half way through their shift
A recent video on a video-sharing platform went viral showing employees at a McDonald’s outlet standing outside the outlet in mid-shift, refusing to work....
NetConnect Global to hire 5,000 in India
Bengaluru-based NetConnect Global (NCG) is gearing to expand in India. As part of its expansion plans, it is all set to hire 5,000 people...
Staff of Disco Corp. pay their colleagues who report to work...
In a bid to push things back to normal, a Japanese semiconductor equipment company has asked its employees working from home to give a...
Government extends wage subsidy, to encourage job creation
The Government’s wage subsidy scheme, which was to end today, that is, June 30, has now been extended till March 31, 2022. The scheme...
iD Fresh Food to hire 500+, ensure diversity
iD Fresh Food, the fresh food company, is working to expand its workforce in India and abroad. It hopes to ensure more gender diversity...
“Reinstate employee, pay back wages”: Court to Wipro
There was much cheer and celebration amongst members of the Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU), when a Wipro employee who was forced to...
Brace yourself for a ‘series’ of ‘new normals’
As we move into the second quarter of this finance year, there are at least two broad scenarios in front of us: Either life...
Reliance retail to create 10 lakh jobs in the near future
Reliance Retail has been witnessing significant growth even amidst the pandemic, as per the data revealed during the Company’s 44th annual general meeting.
Not only...
TCS bats for satellite offices, more women in the workforce
For the over four lakh employees at Tata Consultancy Services, the future of work lies in the ‘third place’ or the satellite office. Natarajan...
McD’s to open 50 outlets in Britain, create 20,000 jobs
McDonald's, the American US fast-food giant, has revealed plans to hire 20,000 people in Britain and Ireland to help fulfil the surge in demand...
Has the pandemic inspired Indian Millennials, GenZ, to be more...
The pandemic has affected each and every one of us, albeit in different ways. Some effects have been truly positive. For instance, it is...
CNH Industrial, ADP, BL Agro go for mass inoculation of employees
CNH Industrial, a global producer of agricultural and construction equipment in India announced its in-house COVID-19 vaccination drive for its 4,000-strong Indian workforce, including...
UK to create 19,000 jobs, build 17,000 homes
As part of its attempt to recover from the aftermath of the pandemic, the UK government has given the nod for 160 projects across...
TCS gears up to bring back 25% staff to office
Tata Consultancy Services is reportedly preparing to bring back about 25 per cent of its workforce to office. According to an ET report, the...
Reliance, Aster extend financial support to families of deceased staff
Reliance Industries (RIL) has announced that it will pay five years’ salary to the family of those employees who have lost their lives to...
Employment growth forecast for 2021 insufficient to help jobless, new jobseekers
While the employment scenario in 2021 and 2022 will witness a rebound, it will not be enough to close the gap in employment brought...
Cathay Pacific begins hiring local pilots
The hiring of qualified pilots who possess residency rights, that is the right to live and work in Hong Kong, is part of Cathay’s...
Fulcrum Digital to expand team by 750 tech specialists in 2021
Fulcrum Digital Inc. will hire over 750 digital technology experts this year, that is, 100 per cent more than last year. These lateral hires...
Compulsory LWP for IndiGo senior employees
IndiGo has asked its senior employees to go on compulsory leave without pay (LWP) for up to four days every month till September 2021....
EPFO’s new feature to keep tab on contractors’ claims
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has launched a new feature with the help of which principal employers can now check the compliances of those...
Coaching as a career amidst pandemic
‘Pandemic’ is a word that combines the Greek words ‘pan’ meaning all and ‘demos’ meaning people. The focus of the word is on the...
Deutsche Bank wants women in 30% senior roles in 5 years
Deutsche Bank presently has about 600 senior executives, with only about 24 per cent of them being women. Now, the German lender, is aiming...
100% placement for IIM Amritsar’s 5th MBA batch
Despite the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic over the last year and a half almost, IIM Amritsar managed to conclude the academic year...
Telecom contract jobs to increase with launch of 5G
With the Department of Telecom (DoT) approving applications of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Reliance Jio, and other telecom companies to begin 5G trials in...
BigBasket, Grofers on hiring spree
Amidst the second wave of the pandemic in India, more people are relying on online purchase of essentials. Quite naturally, logistics firms and online...
Bridgestone, Publicis Sapient, Vestige Marketing drive employee-centric initiatives
While corporate houses are trying to outdo each other by offering financial assistance to their employees amidst the second wave of the pandemic, Bridgestone...
Bajaj Allianz, Tata Motors, StanChart, offer significant financial support to staff
As the pandemic continues to rage, organisations are coming forward to help their employees deal with the emergency. While some are offering financial support,...
Will attrition rate increase significantly, post pandemic?
Attrition rates have been quite controlled in the last one year and a half because there was a job market squeeze. Many even lost...
5-day closure at Tata Motors plant in Jamshedpur
Tata Motors has shut down its plant at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand — which manufactures trucks, buses and heavy commercial vehicles — for five days, starting...
Reinventing tomorrow’s workplace
Years ago, I built a 24-foot-long table in my backyard as a gathering place for thoughtful dialogue with the eclectic group of friends, acquaintances,...
Cognizant CEO interacts with 5 employees daily, for an hour
Cognizant Technology Solutions, which employs over three lakh people globally, saw an attrition rate of about 33 per cent in the July-September quarter. With...
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Sciative rolls out ESOPs for team members
Sciative, the pricing company offering AI-powered automated price optimisation systems, recently rolled out employee stock options (ESOPs) for its employees. Interestingly, the average age...
Laura Lee Gentry appointed chief people officer, Enboarder
Enboarder, the people-activation platform that engages employees, has appointed Laura Lee Gentry as chief people officer.
Gentry has moved to this highly customisable platform that...
SupplyCompass to hire 200 in about 18 months
SupplyCompass, the UK-based fashtech company — which helps fashion brands tie up with their manufacturers and drive sustainable practices — is all set to...
Rajasthan government to help women ‘Back to Work’
A new scheme called ‘Back to Work’ was launched in Rajasthan, which will provide job opportunities, to women in the private sector in the...
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“A CEO needs to acknowledge the silent majority who create the company’s fortunes” S...
Q. RPG is a diversified group with businesses spread across sectors and domains. however, its brands have a strong individual identity unlike other business...
“If CEO is the father of an organisation, CHRO is the mother,” Pankaj Lochan
Q. You have been shuttling between HR and manufacturing roles. Was it a well-thought out strategy or did you just go with the flow...
Binding multi-faceted employees with Titan Values
Titan has different sets of employees for different functions and verticals, ranging from the shopfloor to the retail stores. How do you bring in...
