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Economic Slowdown

Preparing the Workforce during Global Slowdown

Apr 14, 2020

Cashfree Payments appoints a new HR Head

Cashfree Payments India Pvt. Ltd. has appointed Sapna Sukumar as the Head of Human Resources Cashfre...

CHRO Move

Apr 13, 2020

Cashfree Payments appoints a new HR Head

Lockdown Anxiety Levels Up Among Employees As Appraisals Get Delayed, Job Loss Fears Rise

A lot many are fearing loss of job, some have already seen pay cuts and appraisals are getting delay...

Coronavirus

Apr 13, 2020

Lockdown Anxiety Levels Up Among Employees As Appraisals Get Delayed, Job Loss Fears Rise

Govt notifies EPF scheme under PM Gareeb Kalyan Yojna

The labour ministry on th April, Friday notified the special scheme wherein the government will co...

Labour Law

Apr 13, 2020

Govt notifies EPF scheme under PM Gareeb Kalyan Yojna

Economic Slowdown

The Impact of Recession on HR Practices

No one saw the recession coming- Gordon Ramsay Very apt to understand that nobody is or can be actually fully ready as we don’t see it coming. This is where and why HR has been more predictive, intuitive and prepared to meet the need of time. It’s wise to PREPARE for worst and sail through […]

Apr 13, 2020

Survey & Report

India jobless rate swells above 23% amid lockdown: Survey

India’s unemployment rate could have climbed to more than 20% as the economy lost jobs after a nationwide lockdown took effect in the last week of March, according to a survey by the CMIE Center for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd. The jobless rate was 23.4% for the week ended April 5 based on a sample size […]

Apr 10, 2020

Jobs

Google bans employees from using Zoom

Google is issuing a ban on the use of the Zoom teleconferencing platform for employees citing security concerns. “Google emailed employees last week about the ban, telling workers who had the Zoom app installed on their Google-provided machines that the software would soon no longer function.” According to Google spokesperson, Zoom‘s desktop client doesn’t meet […]

Apr 10, 2020

CHRO Move

Dabur appoints new Head- HR from Nestle

Dabur has appointed Biplab Baksi as Executive Director- HR. He replaces V Krishnan who is on his way out and is serving the notice period. In his new role, Biplab will be responsible for all HR functions across domestic and international entities of the company and he will report to CEO Mohit Malhotra. Biplab has […]

Apr 10, 2020

Economic Slowdown

HR Challenges & Opportunities in Economic Slowdown

“When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.” (When the situation becomes difficult, the strong will work harder to meet the challenge.) Today’s most vehemently conversed and the discussed subject is global ‘Economic Slowdown’; right from the security guard to the top bosses of an organization, all seem to have some opinion or other, on […]

Apr 10, 2020

Jobs

COVID-19: Govt to release Income Tax refunds immediately

Today, the Income Tax Department, on its official Twitter handle, announced that Government of India to give income tax refunds up to Rs 5 lakh immediately due to coronavirus impact. According to the announcement “In context of COVID-19 situation & to grant immediate relief to taxpayers, GOI has decided to issue all pending income-tax refunds […]

Apr 8, 2020

Economic Slowdown

Workforce Management in Recession – HR Strategies

Being ahead with time has become a necessity in the current time. Change is taking place everywhere in our surroundings and the change has been only constant in the business. Recently in my organisation, the name of “HR department” has been changed to “People and Culture department” as we work for people and culture of […]

Apr 8, 2020

Magazine

Skilling, Reskilling, and Upskilling amidst the Crisis

SightsIn Plus, April 2020: Skilling, Reskilling, and Upskilling Amidst the Crisis Most of the organizations are done with appraisals and this is the time for them to fix the Skills gap. Due to the current coronavirus crisis and lockdown employees are working from home. And we need to look at different ways for skilling, reskilling […]

Apr 8, 2020

Jobs

Capgemini tweaks its leave policy in India

Capgemini tweaks its leave policy in India amid coronavirus lockdown According to a Business Standard Report, firm Capgemini has tweaked its leave policy in India temporarily apart from deferring increments and promotions of senior-level employees by one quarter. Capgemini India said, We had tweaked leave accumulation only up to Q2 (FY21) end, and only as an interim measure. […]

Apr 7, 2020

Culture & Behaviour

Culture determines whether you Sink or Swim in Downturn

“Tom Watson” was the CEO at “EngineersAtWork” a global engineering firm that was facing headwinds in a market downturn. Tom called me for help about how he might need to adjust to meet the demands of the economic decline and a few days later we met in his office where he described how the recent slowdown […]

Apr 7, 2020

Jobs

TCS offers a free, 15-day digital certification programme

TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services, announced on Monday a free, 15-day self-paced digital certification program called Career Edge, specially designed for college students/working professionals to enhance their career skills by helping them effectively utilize the time at hand during this period of lockdown. Since all the colleges and workplaces are closed […]

Apr 6, 2020

Economic Slowdown

How to Cut Business Costs During Downturn

Business upturn and downturn is a very cyclical phenomenon, but it is also a very slow phenomenon. In recent times, the kind of downturns that have taken place have largely been unpredictable – the 2000 downturn post the dot com bubble burst, 2008 economic crisis post plummeting of global banks etc. Often what is observed […]

Apr 6, 2020