Tag: Workforce
Muvi to expand workforce by 50
Muvi, the OTT platform, with its headquarters in New York, is looking at hiring 50 people in 2021. It is looking to expand its...
Tredence to Hire 1000+ in Bangalore, Chennai, Gurugram
Tredence, leading data science and artificial intelligence (AI) engineering company, will add 1,000 technology professionals to its workforce over the next one year, to...
Medikabazaar to double its 600-strong workforce
Medikabazaar, the one-stop B2B platform for medical supplies, has announced that following the strengthening of its executive team, it will focus on expanding its...
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...
Quick Heal upskills 60% of its workforce annually
Quick Heal Technologies, the Indian cybersecurity software company, works in a very niche market. This makes it difficult for it to acquire 100 per...
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...
TCS hires 20,000, achieves headcount of 5 lakh
The workforce strength of Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) has managed to cross the five lakh mark, post the hiring of 20,000 people in the...
Apple insists on 3 days in office, staff seek resist
Not long ago, Apple had communicated its return to office policy to its workforce, requiring everyone to come into office thrice a week. However,...
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...
Buckingham Palace hopes to be more inclusive and diverse
The British Royal Family’s annual financial report reveals that 8.4 per cent of its household staff belong to ethnic minorities. Buckingham Palace is working...
HFDC Bank to hire 500 techies
HDFC Bank, which has been struggling with frequent tech snags for a couple of years now, is now gearing up to do something about...
Special bonus, 75% hike in variable pay, for PwC India staff
After having paid a two-week one-time special bonus to its 15,000-strong workforce in the country in March 2021, PricewaterhouseCoopers India is now giving vouchers...
Exxon to cut 10% of jobs every year
Exxon Mobil Corp., the American multinational oil and gas corporation, will reduce its workforce across offices in the US, by five to 10 per...
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...
Free training for veterans in NSW to make them employable
Veterans in New South Wales (NSW) will soon be trained and educated free of cost as part of a programme to get retired defence...
AVIVA India launches “WAR ROOM” to support their employees
Aviva Life Insurance has created an Aviva War Room - a group of 50 volunteers who track leads for medical supplies in real time,...
SBI posts profits, to give staff 15 days’ pay as PLI
State Bank of India will be paying its employees 15 days of pay as performance-linked incentive. The Indian public-sector bank recently reported an 80.15...
New Power Couple, CHRO & CIO, help sail through the pandemic
With remote work becoming the norm ever since the pandemic struck, organisations have felt an urgent need to completely digitise many work processes. Most...
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...
Leegality to hire from across India, double workforce
Leegality, the eSign, eStmap and document workflow platform, has set itself a target of 10x growth in revenue in a year’s time. Anticipating huge...
Pandemic bonding at workplace
Now that we are into the second year of the pandemic, we can only hope for things to go well in the coming year....
HCL to hire 1,000 in Britain
HCL Technologies, is gearing up to expand its 3,500-strong workforce in Britain. It is looking for talent in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI),...
JP Morgan seeks 4,000 techies for India
JP Morgan, the American investment bank and financial services company, has revealed its intention to hire about 4,000 technology professionals, with experience, for its...
56% of salaried women exited the workforce in India in a...
Whatever the employment arrangement may be, women have always been more disadvantaged than men in the Indian workforce. According to the State of Working...
Disgruntled staff of Basecamp jump ship, along with seniors
Basecamp, the American productivity software company, saw about a third of its workforce putting in their papers. Even some senior employees resigned in protest...
Borosil announces huge compensation for families of staff who died of...
Borosil and Borosil Renewables have gone out of their way to announce an extraordinary compensation for the families of those employees who lose their...
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...
Harness.io: Cultivating a talent powerhouse in the tech crucible
The tech scene, be it in India or San Francisco, is equally crucible, fiercely competitive and unforgiving. In both the landscapes, attracting and retaining...
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...
Why are so many H-1B workers in the US switching jobs?
A recent study has revealed that more and more H-1B visa holders in the US are switching jobs. In fact, there was a record...
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20 more Googlers terminated for taking undue advantage of ‘open culture’
Close on the heels of warning employees about the repercussions of violating office policies, Google has fired 20 more employees. These terminations are in...
Google CEO urges respectful disagreement as protests erupt
The past few days have seen internal tensions rise at Google. Employee protests against the company’s business dealings with Israel resulted in nine arrests...
Re-evaluate climate-change legislations, create new ones to protect workers: ILO report
Why does the International Labour Organisation feel that it is time to come up with climate-change specific policies and even create new policies to...
2.05 lakh out of 7.78 lakh new EPFO members added are women
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) reportedly added 15.48 lakh members on a net basis, as per the provisional payroll data. The heartening news is...
DIALOGUE
Data analytics and not technology will redefine HR
Q. How satisfying has been your professional journey of 39 years?
A. It has been a bagful of mixed experiences. At times I have been...
EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO
Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...
“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....
