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Gig Workers may soon have to register under GST

The government is planning to get services professionals such as plumbers, electricians, and beauticians listed on online platforms into the Goods and Services Tax Network. According to an Economic Times report, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade ( DPIIT) is considering making it mandatory for online marketplaces such as UrbanClap, HouseJoy, and […]

CHRO Move

Vodafone Idea’s SVP HR Ranjan Mishra joins Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf appoints Ranjan Mishra as Director- Human Resources, India. He will assume the position from Feb 18, 2020. In his new role, Ranjan will be responsible for all people operations, encompassing commercial business, shared services, and global delivery centre. Prior to this, Ranjan was associated with Vodafone Idea as EVP-Human Resources, taking care of […]

Transformation

Changing Role of HR Managers to Great HR Leaders

When we look at today’s most successful organizations, the CHRO is an integral member of the leadership team – and as a unit, they drive business and organization growth. It had not always been this way for HR, in the past (and it still sadly happens in some organizations today), HR was viewed as an […]

Amazon to create 10 lakh new jobs in India by 2025

Amazon announced that it is planning to create 1 million new jobs in India by 2025 through continued investments in technology, infrastructure, and logistics network. This comes three days after company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos visited India. According to Amazon press statement, the jobs will be created both directly and indirectly across industries, including […]

Future of Work

Recognizing and Overcoming Unconscious Biases in HR

We all have unconscious biases — assumptions that shape how we think, act, and feel. Some biases can hold us back. But when we make explicit those implicit stereotypes that limit us, we are more able to recognize and overcome them. I admit an unconscious bias in favor of HR as a value creator for employees, organizations, […]

Flipkart to create 5,000 local Jobs, opens two warehouses in Haryana

Walmart-owned Flipkart on January 14 said that it is strengthening its supply chain infrastructure by setting up two warehouses (fulfilment centres or FCs) in Haryana, a move that will create about 5,000 jobs locally. With these two FCs, Flipkart now has 12 assets in Haryana, including supply chain infrastructure for large appliances, non-large (including mobiles, […]

Future of Work

Work From Home: The Best Practices

How much time do you spend on an average commuting from work to home asked a friend of mine? Around 3 hours I replied, and you? I asked …4 hours sometime longer he said. He lives in Bangalore and me in Mumbai. Depending on the place you stay in the urban metro cities your time to commute […]

Oyo rooms notifies employees about layoffs via emails

SoftBank-backed Oyo to fire 2,400 employees in India over this week, it has begun the process of notifying thousands of staffers individually about their status in the organization through individual emails. The Layoffs in Delhi and Jaipur were communicated to the staff on Monday, while in Gurgaon employees were notified on Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020. According to an […]

Jan 16, 2020

CGI plans to hire 15,000 over the next 5 years

Canadian IT and business consulting services firms, CGI plans to hire nearly 15,000 people in India over the next four to five years. CGI offers an extensive global delivery network made up of numerous centres of excellence strategically located around the world to meet the needs of our clients. In India, there are over 15,000 […]

Jan 16, 2020

Culture & Behaviour

HR 2020: Shaping the Employee Experience fit for the future

Companies in the year 2020 will see focus coming back to, much needed, ‘employee experience’. Off late, the focus has been more on Agility, Technology, Automation that left an important quadrant of employee experience untouched. I strongly feel that the efforts to refine and enhance the employee experience will continue to be a top area […]

Jan 16, 2020

Survey & Report

Budget 2020- likely to lower the tax rates for middle-income taxpayers

2019 has been a year when the economy went through various phases of economic swings and by now it has been accepted that there is a slowdown in the economy. The run-up to the budget has always been full of expectation and excitement. But this time around, the Budget 2020 has grabbed a lot more […]

Jan 15, 2020