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Sudeep Ralhan appointed CHRO, Upstox
After leading the people agenda for Walmart Global Tech India for over four years, Sudeep Ralhan has joined Upstox as chief people officer.
At Walmart,...
Walmart to expand workforce by 50,000 in the US
Walmart is gearing to hire 50,000 workers in the US in about a month’s time. The American retailer is reportedly hiring workers for its...
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...
Fully vaccinated Walmart employees no longer need to mask up
Starting immediately, the fully vaccinated staff working at any facility of Walmart or Sam’s Club need not mask up, unless the local laws mandate...
50% cut in paid leave for COVID-positive staff at Walmart
Employees of Walmart in the US who need to self-isolate or have tested positive for COVID-19 will now only get a week’s paid leave...
Walmart to expand InHome service in the US, hire 3,000+ drivers
Walmart is gearing to enhance its home delivery facility, for which it needs more drivers in its already 100-strong fleet. It plans to hire...
Walmart organises hiring event to take on thousands in supply chain
In the month of September, Walmart announced it would be hiring 20,000 permanent associates in its supply chain business to fulfil the surge in...
Walmart to call its corporate employees back to office by November...
Walmart has asked its employees to return to offices from November 8, 2021. The Company, after operating remotely for a large portion of the...
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...
$1 hike in pay for 5.6 lakh Walmart employees
Amidst the acute shortage of labour in the retail space in the US, Walmart has announced a raise of minimum one dollar in hourly...
20,000 may be hired by Walmart to meet holiday season demand
Walmart is looking for candidates to fill the roles of order fillers, freighter handlers and other supply-chain positions at its over 250 delivery and...
Maryann Xu elevated as CPO at Walmart, China
Walmart has elevated Maryann Xu as the SVP & chief people officer for Walmart China. She will lead the HR function at the retail...
Flipkart adds 5000 jobs in Gujarat
Flipkart, the e-commerce platform, has added four additional supply chain facilities in the state of Gujarat, which will add about 5,000 direct and indirect...
Target follows a similar move by Walmart, announces debt-free education benefits...
Target, the global retail company has joined the likes of Walmart, Taco Bell and Walt Disney in providing undergraduate certificates and associate degrees to...
Walmart to pay $125 mn in disability discrimination case?
Marlo Spaeth, a Walmart employee with Down syndrome, was terminated after 16 years of service. Following this, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
Flipkart, ShareChat, to buy back ESOPs
Flipkart, the e-commerce company, is thinking of buying back employee stock options (ESOPs) worth almost $125 million, while it works on raising funds.
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7.4 lakh Walmart employees to get free phones
Walmart has announced that it will give its over 7.4 lakh US staff free Samsung phones by the end of 2021, to enable them...
New guidelines from CDC leads to Walmart, Costco relaxing mask rules
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the national public health agency of the US, has issued fresh guidelines with regard to COVID protocols....
Chithra Thomas appointed HR head at Tesla India
Tesla has appointed its new country HR leader, Chithra Thomas. With 18 years of experience in HR backing her, Thomas has moved from Reliance...
As a retention strategy, Walmart to shift hourly workers to full-time...
In a bid to retain employees, Walmart Inc. will shift more of its US workforce to full-time positions. The retailer expects at least two-thirds...
Over $700 mn will go towards bonuses for Walmart staff
Walmart, the American multinational retail company is paying its employees bonuses which collectively amount to over $700 million. This comes as a compensation for...
Walmart, ConocoPhillips to lay off employees
Walmart, the American retail company, is planning to cut 1,241 jobs at its New Jersey and Arkansas units in 2021. This move is expected...
Walmart announces pay raise for employees
Walmart, the American multinational retail company, will give its 165,000 employees a pay hike. As a result, many of its employees who were working...
Walmart offer $300 bonus to its hourly employees, will recruit 150,000...
Retail company Walmart, has announced cash bonuses to its full-time and part-time hourly employees in the US, for working amid the coronavirus pandemic. The...
Coronavirus and paid sick leaves: Walmart shows the way
Walmart, has announced two weeks of paid leave, in addition to its existing leave policy, for employees who fall sick or are isolated due...
Smriti Singh quits Flipkart as CHRO
After a short year-long stint as CHRO, Flipkart, Smriti Krishna Singh has stepped down. The news was revealed through an e-mail that was sent...
Walmart employee calls for protest demanding a stop to the sale...
After the recent mass shootings in the US, Thomas Marshall, an employee of Walmart, posted two internal memos, which were widely circulated within the...
Walmart’s cost cutting drive targets its pharmacy staff
Walmart, the American multinational retail company, is expected to lay off about 40 per cent of its senior pharmacists and also some new recruits...
Robots giving a hard time to Walmart employees
Walmart, America’s multinational retail company and also amongst its largest private employers, has introduced robots in its stores to carry out repetitive and un-productive...
Walmart offers education assistance programme to employees in Canada
Walmart, the retail company, has launched an education assistance programme for its full-time employees to attend an accredited college or university in Canada, with...
Walmart confident of Indian market potential
According to Flipkart CEO, Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Walmart has confidence in the Indian market’s potential and is confident that Flipkart will be able to handle...
Walmart to expand its technology group by 2,000
American multinational retail company, Walmart, is all set to recruit 2,000 technology experts in 2019 to support the expansion of its stores and online...
Amazon, Flipkart hire 1,20,000 temporary staff to deal with festive rush
With the festival season having already begun, Amazon India and Flipkart anticipate a deluge of online orders. To ensure timely and smooth delivery for...
Walmart patents tech tool to monitor employee performance
The retail company sees 'listening to the frontend' technology as a cost-cutting measure to improve employee efficiency in its stores.
Walmart offers its employees a college degree for $1 a day
Retail giant, Walmart, which recently took over Flipkart, has unveiled a new associate education benefit programme for its employees in partnership with Guild Education. The objective is to train and educate workers to advance in the jobs of today and be ready for the future.
Walmart–Flipkart deal to create more jobs
Walmart has promised that its expansion in India will create jobs through development of supply chains, commercial opportunity and direct employment.
Culture Clash: Walmart revokes ban on workplace drinking after Jet.com’s acquisition
Jet reportedly had regular in-office happy hours, as well as at least one kitchen cupboard full of liquor, and employees sometimes drank at their desks
Walmart to take on Amazon with employees’ help
In a new arrangement, Walmart employees will deliver packages on way home from work.
Walmart to cut jobs: targets HR team
This time, as part of the restructuring exercise, the lay-offs are reportedly going to affect the stores’ large human resources department.
Paying more to an unknown angel
Ironically, the less we know about potential hires and their propensity to contribute to an enterprise, there is a greater probability of them being incentivised in terms of rewards, remuneration and compensation!
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,”...
Poland gets new LTTS R&D centre, local engineering talent to be...
Larsen & Toubro Technology Services (LTTS), the global engineering services company, has launched its new engineering, research and development (ER&D) centre in Krakow, Poland....
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Poland gets new LTTS R&D centre, local engineering talent to be tapped
Larsen & Toubro Technology Services (LTTS), the global engineering services company, has launched its new engineering, research and development (ER&D) centre in Krakow, Poland....
Flipkart’s Kapil Vardhan joins Teachmint as CHRO
Teachmint, an education infrastructure provider has announced the appointment of Kapil Vardhan as its new CHRO. He will play a crucial role in building...
VFS Global links senior managers’ performance to sustainability goals
VFS Global, the outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions across the globe, is linking the performances of senior management for...
33% reservation for women in outsourced jobs in Karnataka government
Things are looking up for women in the job market across India. Down south, the Government of Karnataka has reserved 33 per cent of...
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“If CEO is the father of an organisation, CHRO is the mother,” Pankaj Lochan
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