Tag: Wipro
Wipro is expanding in Norway
As part of its expansion plan, Wipro is set to enhance its team in Norway, which is emerging as one of the most successful...
NITES files complaint, Infosys defends non-compete clause
A non-compete clause imposed on employees of Infosys has grabbed headlines recently. This clause prevents Infosys staff from working for any of its competitors...
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...
2 out of 3 Indian companies want a phased roll-out of...
The industry seems to be receptive to the four new labour codes that the Government is planning to implement in the near future, according...
Rs 3.5 lakh per annum for ‘project engineers’ at Wipro
Wipro is inviting applications from fresh engineering graduates for its fresher hiring programme, called the Elite National Talent Hunt. Those who do get selected,...
Eduvanz appoints Hanish Dewan as head-HR
Eduvanz, a digital fintech and non-banking financial services (NBFC) firm, has announced various appointments in its leadership team. Hanish Dewan will be head-HR and...
Cognizant records an industry high attrition of 33 per cent
The trend of high attrition rates seems to be uniform for IT companies in the third quarter. However, Cognizant, the US- based tech company,...
Wipro helps women professionals ‘Begin Again’
Wipro, the Indian IT major, has launched a new programme called ‘Begin Again’, which specially caters to women professionals re-entering their careers after a...
Wipro to take on 17,000 from campuses
The rising attrition has forced Wipro to ramp up its hiring plan. It now intends to increase its hiring. Earlier, Wipro had announced that...
Job opportunities at Wipro, TCS, SBI and FSSAI
Wipro has announced its Elite National Talent Hunt 2020 and 2021, to attract the best of fresh engineering talent from across India. The hiring...
Companies are hiring across the world
Hiring seems to be looking up, globally. In the US, FedEx is hosting a National Hiring Day this week, in Atlanta. The plan is...
Wipro’s senior ranks resume office today, others to work from home...
Starting today, that is, September 13, 2021, the leaders at Wipro will work from office twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, reveals a...
Why social interaction is essential to drive innovation
Although the pandemic introduced the idea of remote operation for many businesses, the general consensus is that most companies would prefer to adopt it...
Second increment for Wipro employees
Wipro will be giving merit salary increments (MSI) to all eligible staff up to assistant manager level and below, that is, Band 3 and...
Wipro will hire 400, invest $3mn in Arkansas
The Indian information technology multinational, Wipro, will open a new delivery centre in Sherwood, Arkansas, for which it will hire 400 people over the...
Board Infinity to expand team by 2,000 in 6 months
Board Infinity, the Indian higher education platform for students and early career professionals, is gearing up to expand its workforce by 2,000 over a...
Wipro ropes in GE Healthcare’s Rohit Vishal Gupta for global HR...
Rohit Vishal Gupta, who was CHRO – South Asia, Wipro GE Healthcare, has moved to Wipro in a global HR role.
An alumnus of the...
Wipro to end WFH starting Sept., give hikes to junior staff
Come September, Wipro hopes to have all its employees working from office. Of course, the implementation of ‘return to office’ will differ from country...
Wipro to accelerate hiring, take on 30,000 freshers by 2023
In an endeavour to counter the increasing attrition level at Wipro, the information technology major is planning to hire more freshers, even as demand...
“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...
Wipro to give salary hike to 80% of its employees
On June 18, Wipro announced a salary hike for its employees which will impact at least 80 per cent of its workforce. The decision...
Vikas Dua appointed head – HR, IPG DXTRA
Vikas Dua joins IPG DXTRA, a marketing communications company, as head of human resources. A member of the board of advisors at HuddleUp and...
Infosys expands its ESOP programme to benefit lower-level staff too
Infosys, the Indian IT major, is planning to extend the Employee Stock Options Programme (ESOP) to a larger number of employees, including those in...
Do we need specific stress or mental health leaves?
In October 2020, Urban Company erstwhile Urban Clap, the home services company, allowed its employees to take unlimited sick leaves, if they are mentally...
Metros accounted for 86,000+ active job openings in April
Amidst the second wave of the pandemic that has taken the country by surprise, the top five metros —Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai—...
Major IT firms to hire 1 lakh freshers in 2021
With organisations across the globe investing more in technological upgradation and speeding up digital transformation, there has been a rise in demand for information...
Wipro to roll out bonuses, hikes, hire more
After posting excellent Q4 results, the best in ten years, employees at Wipro can look forward to receiving skill-based bonuses for domains, such as...
Freshers can expect 91,000 jobs from TCS, Infosys, HCL, Wipro
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro together plan to offer jobs to about 91,000 freshers from campuses in the next financial...
COOs of Wipro and Infosys to retire in 2021
Bhanumurthy BM, Wipro’s COO, will retire by June 2021 and UB Pravin Rao, Infosys’ COO will retire by December 2021.
Having started his career in...
Wipro signs $700 million acquisition deal with Metro AG
In a $700 million IT partnership deal, Wipro has acquired German multinational company, Metro AG. As a result, around 1,300 employees from the company...
WFH for Wipro employees till April 2021
Wipro has extended work-from-home for its employees till April 4, 2021. About 98 per cent of the tech company’s workforce is already working remotely...
Ira Pradhan to lead D&I at Freshworks
Former corporate communications lead of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Ira Pradhan, has joined Freshworks as leader-internal communications, diversity & inclusion, CSR.
Pradhan has spent...
Wipro staff will work remotely till January 2021
Keeping in mind the safety of its employees, Wipro has decided to let its staff in India and the US work from home till...
80% Wipro staff to be promoted by December
Wipro is gearing to give promotions to 80 per cent of its workforce over the next three months, as part of its ‘employee interventions’....
Wipro fires staff in Bangladesh, calls it realignment exercise
Companies big and small have been resorting to layoffs and salary cuts to deal with the loss of revenue following the pandemic and related...
Wipro launches Office Shifts for the post-COVID workplace
Due to significant shifts in the ways of the workplace, in the post COVID era, organisations have had to rethink their manner of functioning...
Wipro accused of favouring South Asians & Indians in the US
Five former employees of Wipro in the US, have accused the Company of employment discrimination against people who are not of Indian origin or...
Wipro to utilise existing staff; defer campus offers, hikes, promotions
Wipro will be putting a stop to the hiring process for this financial year. It will instead focus on utilising the current staff effectively...
Voluntary attrition at Wipro drops to 15.7%, campus hiring doubles
The Company’s local employee base in the US is now 70 per cent
In the 2019-20 period, Wipro’s campus hiring is said to have more...
Wipro is top employer in Australia: Survey
According to an HR best practices survey, Indian information technology (IT) company, Wipro, has been ranked the No. 1 employer in Australia for 2020.
The...
Aditya Birla Retail’s HR head joins Chai Point as COO
Chai Point, an online tea retailer with physical retail stores as well, has appointed Shashikanth KS as its chief operating officer. HRKatha’s sources confirmed...
Wipro creates hundreds of jobs in the US
Indian multinational informational technology company, Wipro, will soon be offering about 200 jobs in the Richmond area, where it has now set up an...
Wipro to promote 5000 employees by December
Wipro has not only been giving good salary increments to people possessing digital skills, but has also revealed plans to promote about 5000 of...
Hiring in IT sector has picked up significantly
While other sectors are struggling to survive and resorting to downsizing, India’s information technology (IT) companies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro have...
‘Spirit of Wipro’ run witnesses overwhelming participation world over
Thousands of Wipro’s present and former employees, along with their family members, friends, clients, partners and other associates participated in a fun run worldwide,...
Indian IT firms in the US pay higher average wage than...
A research has recently revealed that the average wage paid by Indian IT services firms to their employees in the US, is about $96,300....
Usha Dantu joins IntSights as global head-HR
IntSights, a growing cybersecurity startup, has appointed Usha Dantu as its global head of HR. Dantu has moved to New York City to take...
Wipro CEO’s salary rises 41% in 2018-19
Abidali Z Neemuchwala, chief executive officer (CEO), Wipro, has witnessed a 41 per cent increase in salary, with the Company reporting a 37.74 per...
Wipro IT employees receive salary hike but factory workers still waiting
After Rishad Premji taking over the reins of Wipro from his father, Azim Premji, the Company has announced a high single-digit average salary hike...
Affle appoints Major Sonam Bakshi as chief human resource officer
Affle India, the global technology company and consumer intelligence-driven mobile marketing platform, has appointed Major Sonam Bakshi as its chief human resource officer. Bakshi,...