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Syfe appoints Saurabh Seth as head of talent acquisition in India
Digital investment platform, Syfe has appointed Saurabh Seth as its head of talent acquisition in India. His appointment is part of Syfe’s plans to...
“India needs DE&I conversations specific to our region,” Divya Garg
A big change in 2022
Flexible working is the new currency, with employees ascribing high value to it and employers acknowledging it as critical for...
Uber plans to hire 500 techies for Hyderabad & Bangalore centres
Uber is planning to add 500 techies at its Hyderabad and Bengaluru centres in India. Recently, the Company inaugurated another floor at its Bengaluru...
Uber CEO’s letter to employees signals slowdown in hiring
In a letter to employees, Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO, Uber, has emphasised on what is going to be the way forward from now on at...
100% placements at IIM Kozhikode
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) reported 100 per cent placements at the final placements week, and that too just three days into...
How ERGs serve as a testing ground for potential leaders
The concept of ERG, short for employee resource group, is a well-known one. These are groups of like-minded people who represent the under-represented and...
Uber appoints Divya Garg as head – HR, India & South...
Uber today announced the appointment of Divya Garg as head - HR for the India and South Asia (SA) region. Garg will be working...
Urban Company ropes in Uber’s Neha Mathur as SVP-HR
Urban Company, a tech-enabled home services marketplace, today announced the appointment of Neha Mathur as senior vice president, human resources.
An alumnus of the Tata...
Uber becomes generous, offers more flexibility to employees
Uber Technologies, which had earlier expected its employees to work from home for up to two days a week, and from office the rest...
Uber to expand Bengaluru, Hyderabad tech & product teams by 250
Uber is on the lookout for sharp engineering talent in India that can help the Company come up with solutions for its mobility and...
Uber officially recognises drivers’ union in Britain
For the first time, Uber has entered into an agreement with a trade union in Britain, GMB, to represent its 70,000 drivers in the...
Zomato, Swiggy start inoculation of delivery partners
Zomato and Swiggy, the food-delivery platforms, have launched COVID-19 vaccination drive in India for their delivery partners.
Swiggy had announced on social media that it...
Nanjappa Palekanda appointed VP-talent experience & operations, Netflix
Nanjappa Palekanda, has joined Netflix as vice president - talent experience and operations. He has moved from Uber, where he was serving as senior...
Gig workers may be better protected in the US now
The rule that would have facilitated classifying gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees may soon be on its way out, if the...
Rashi Sikka, Ex D&I head, Uber, joins Ubisoft as VP-diversity
Ubisoft has hired Raashi Sikka as its first global vice president responsible for diversity and inclusion. Sikka has moved from Uber, where she was...
Ola and Uber to hire 1,000 and 225 engineers, respectively
Ola is readying to set up its second tech centre in India. This new centre, which will begin its operations in Pune, by the...
Govt plans to set up security fund for gig workers
In September 2019, the Government had sought to regulate the country’s rising gig economy by devising a social security scheme to benefit the lakhs...
Uber extends work-from-home for employees till June 2021
Following in the footsteps of Google, ride-hailing company, Uber, has announced the extension of its work-from-home (WFH) policy through June 2021.
However, employees may also...
2nd round of job cuts at Uber, 45 offices to close...
Only about a week back, Uber had made headlines for the manner in which it had asked about 3,700 employees to leave, over multiple...
Over 3,700 Uber employees fired in minutes over Zoom Calls
Uber has reportedly laid off nearly 3,700 employees via multiple Zoom calls, with each calling lasting less than three minutes conveying a common message...
3,700 full-time jobs to be slashed at Uber
With the pandemic and related restrictions imposed by nations across the world, the demand for app-based rides fell drastically over the last couple of...
Uber drivers not employees rules a Brazilian court
A federal judge at a Brazilian higher court for labour has ruled that there is no employer-employee relationship between Uber and its drivers. His...
Uber to create 500 jobs in India, launches 2nd COE in...
Uber, the ride-sharing company, has announced the launch of its second Centre of Execellence (COE) in India, at Visakhapatnam. This new COE will create...
About 350 employees laid off at Uber
Around 350 Uber employees were laid off on 14 October, most of whom belonged to the advanced technologies group (ATG) of the ride-hailing company....
Uber to diversify into on-demand staffing services
Uber, the American ride-hailing service, is gearing up to foray into on-demand job services.
Uber Works, its new app, is aimed at helping job seekers...
Uber determined not to treat drivers as employees
Uber Technologies has been caught up in a legal argument wherein the Company has been trying to prove that its drivers are simply independent...
Former Google employee accused of stealing trade secrets
Anthony Levandowski, who was an engineer and one of the founding members of the self-driving car project at Google, was accused of stealing trade...
Uber incurs losses, stops hiring in the US temporarily
Hiring for software and services has been temporarily frozen at Uber Technologies, for the US and Canada operations, in the face of growing losses.
The...
Uber alumni network is helping laid off staff find work
Post lay off of over 400 Uber staff members recently, the Uber alumni network and other tech employees have posted hundreds of job vacancies...
Uber lays off 400 marketing staff owing to slow growth and...
Ride-hailing company, Uber, is reducing its 1200 strong global marketing team by 400, in order to bring down costs and do away with overlapping...
How can HR ensure the success of a strategic alliance?
There are many examples of strategic alliances in India, where two organisations have come together to achieve a certain goal. One such example is...
Uber’s first employee resigns from board
Ryan Graves, former VP-global operations at Uber, the American multinational transportation network company, has stepped down from the Company’s board of directors.
Interestingly, Uber very...
Interns at Facebook get Rs 5.6 lakh a month!
According to a survey by Glassdoor, that identifies companies with highest median monthly pay for interns in the US, Facebook pays its interns $8,000,...
Uber to hire more staff, will create India hub for product...
Ride-share company, Uber, is all set to make India its product-design hub. It plans to recruit 1000 people each for its engineering divisions in...
Uber India to expand its product and engineering teams
Uber is readying to expand its engineering and product teams across its technology centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Presently, Uber Engineering India has over...
More women among LinkedIn HR Power Profiles
This annual list showcases the most viewed professionals in the country across eight categories.
Uber back on the hot pan for racial discrimination
The cab service company continues to attract attention for all the wrong reasons.
Uber sacks 100 self-driving car operators in the US
The transportation network company will replace self-test drivers with mission specialists.
Uber HR head quits after racial discrimination probe
The Company started investigation allegations that Liane Hornsey systematically dismissed internal complaints of racial discrimination.
Uber’s South Asia HR head, Vishpala Reddy, gets an APAC role
Reddy will now head the HR function for Australia, New Zealand, and North Asia, in addition to India & South Asia.
Riding the right path: How Uber is driving a cultural change...
From focussed efforts to improve upon diversity and inclusion, to working around the new cultural norms, Uber is driving change from all directions.
Cab aggregators reduce drivers’ incentives by 60 per cent
Ola and Uber have begun focussing on profits and cutting costs
Free life insurance for Uber drivers from September 1
The Company is all set to enhance the driver–partner experience.
Dara Khosrowshahi to be new CEO of Uber
Khosrowshahi, CEO of Expedia, will replace Travis Kalanick who stepped down in June.Dara Khosrowshahi to be new CEO of Uber
Amex India’s HR head Vishpala Reddy to ride on Uber
Globally, Uber has been under lots of criticism in terms of people management especially on sexual harassments and gender discrimination. Reddy will have a tough task as the new chief people officer for India and South Asia.
Uber starts tapping faculty from B-schools
It has hired Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei as SVP for leadership and strategy function.
Justice delivered: Uber fires more than 20 employees for harassment
The cab service provider has reportedly fired more than 20 people following an internal investigation into harassment claims.
Uber India to hire talent to innovate and enhance driver-rider experience
In line with its plan to provide improved services, the company is looking to hire product managers, data scientists and designers.
Toronto-based startup aims to become Uber of talent acquisition
The Gig economy model offered by Curasion involves temporary positions, independent/freelance workers and short-term contractual engagements.
Uber & Ola drivers: Employees, contractual or outsourced?
The drivers of these cab aggregators have complained against the arbitrary payment deductions on unsubstantiated grounds. Neither is there any indemnity scheme for the driver, in case of fraud booking, nor is there any freedom to cancel bookings.
Why a coaching culture and not any other culture?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”...
27 years of perfect attendance for what?
After 27 years of hard work and perfect attendance, an employee looks forward to being rewarded for his service. While Kevin Ford, an employee...
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Loneliness at workplace: Increasingly becoming fatal
Loneliness at the workplace is so rampant across organisations that it has started affecting the bottom line. An analysis by Cigna in 2020, suggests...
Amazon’s robots to make work safer and easier for its employees
Amazon’s robots to make work safer and easier for its employees
Proteus and Cardinal are two robots that are taking over some of the manual...
10% job reservation for Agniveers, opportunities galore
The Centre has announced job opportunities for Agniveers under the Agnipath scheme. Ten per cent of the jobs in the Central Armed Police Forces...
Flyhomes starts informal meets, allows employees to bond better
Flyhomes, an end-to-end real-estate brokerage and technology firm, has initiated a countrywide employee-engagement programme called ‘Flyhomies Connect’. The initiative is a city-specific programme, and...
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“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
“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...
