Tag: Wipro
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...
How this energy company is championing employee inclusivity & engagement
In today’s competitive business landscape, fostering an inclusive and engaging work environment is not just a feel-good initiative; it’s a strategic imperative. Jakson Green,...
Trident’s Asmita leaves blossom into inclusive workplaces
Forget the tired trope of corporate activism. In the heart of India's textile industry, Trident, a manufacturing company, is quietly weaving a revolution in...
Engagement is outdated: The future of success lies in ‘employee involvement’
In the ever-evolving landscape of the contemporary workplace, a profound metamorphosis is underway, challenging the conventional emphasis on employee engagement. This paradigm shift posits...
Tata Steel: Journey through excellence in talent acquisition
Tata Steel, part of the Tata Group, is a multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is one of the world's leading steel...
Toshiba to let go 5000 in Japan
Toshiba is contemplating a significant downsizing of its workforce in Japan, eyeing a reduction of about 5,000 positions. The move is said to affect...
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TCS to give salary hikes of 4.5% to 7%
Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) intends to give salary increments of 4.5 to seven per cent, on the basis of each individual’s performance. The extremely...
Investing in women to accelerate progress—the only way forward
Despite so much talk about progress and equity, in 2024, women still face barriers in leadership roles. They make up nearly half of the...
Tesla faces speculation over potential layoffs amidst internal struggles
Tesla has become the centre of attention as speculations mount regarding the possibility of significant layoffs within the company. Reports stemming from Gigafactory Texas...
Tata Technologies to ramp up hiring with 35,000 people
Tata Technologies' iPhone assembly hub in Koothanapalli, Tamil Nadu, is slated for extensive expansion. As part of this ambitious strategy, the company aims to...
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