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Updated on: Jun 2023

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Divya Gokulnath shares everyone says Byjus has toxic culture, but..

Jun 22, 2023

Tata Power, Amazon Indias most attractive employers in

Tata Power emerged as the most attractive employer brand in India in , followed by Amazon and Ta...

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Jun 22, 2023

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Matrimony.com Emerging Leaders Program - Check detail

Indias first pure play Consumer Internet Company, Matrimony.com is excited to have flagged of...

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Jun 21, 2023

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Meta, Google among top paying companies in despite layoffs

According to a Business Insider report originally attributed to The Wall Street Journal, Meta and Go...

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Jun 20, 2023

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TCS employees volunteer 2.2 million hours in FY23, set new record

An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employees worldwide have reportedly volunteered 2.2 million hours. TCS covers a volunteering programme HOPE (Hours of Purpose by Employees). The company had launched #millionhoursofpurpose as a part of the HOPE initiative. As a collective effort by its employees to volunteer 1 million […]

Jun 19, 2023

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Wipro launches 8-Week GenAI Accelerator Program, Apply

An Indian multinational corporation that provides information technology, consultant, and business process services, Wipro is launching an 8-week Accelerator program for GenAI startups across India and Silicon Valley, USA. About Program As a startup, you are the key drivers of innovation and economic growth, and the company is committed to supporting you through this accelerator […]

Jun 17, 2023

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TCS ‘Work from Office’ Impact: Employees get less time to upskill

An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) asked employees to come to the office at least three days a week. It has been a sharp decline in the average number of learning hours per employee as a lot of time is lost in traveling which has caused affecting the […]

Jun 17, 2023

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15-year-old CEO is banned from LinkedIn; here’s the reason

Eric Zhu, 15 years old is a Co-Founder of Aviato and an investor with Bachmanity Capital. Despite this, he can’t have a LinkedIn profile because he is too young to meet LinkedIn’s minimum age requirement. The minimum age limit is at least 16 years old to register and create an account with the social media […]

Jun 17, 2023

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HCLTech is developing skills in AI to certify 10,000 engineers

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and Microsoft announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) and develop joint solutions to enable businesses to achieve better outcomes and enhance business transformation. Leveraging HCLTech’s deep domain expertise across various industries and Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service, clients will benefit from […]

Jun 16, 2023

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Google CEO Pichai claims ex-Googlers created 2,000 startups

An American multinational technology company, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has claimed that the ex-Googlers created 2,000 startups. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, “Googlers have left to create over 2,000 startups, last I counted, and I think that’s great. Some of them are cloud customers down the line for us.” “Some of them come back. I think […]

Jun 14, 2023

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Maternity leave should increase from six months to nine months?

Recently last month, NITI Aayog member V K Paul said that both the private and public sectors should consider enhancing the maternity leave for women workers from six months to nine months. The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was passed by the Parliament in 2017 entitling paid maternity leave of 26 weeks, up from earlier […]

Jun 14, 2023

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Accenture to invest $3 bn in data, AI; to double its AI jobs to 80,000

Accenture announced a $3 billion investment over three years in its Data & AI practice to help clients across all industries rapidly and responsibly advance and use AI to achieve greater growth, efficiency, and resilience. “There is unprecedented interest in all areas of AI, and the substantial investment we are making in our Data & AI […]

Jun 14, 2023

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Linda Yaccarino New CEO first email to staff: ‘Enter Twitter 2.0’

The popular social media platform, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino with an extensive background in advertising has sent her first email to employees sharing the detailed vision of building ‘Twitter 2.0’. Linda Yaccarino shared a series of tweets saying, “Hello Twitter. People keep asking me: Why Twitter? So, I’ll tell you.” “Elon knew space exploration and electric vehicles […]

Jun 14, 2023

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TCS women employees rejecting WFO, attrition is higher than men

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) has recently said women attrition was higher than that of men likely due to the return-to-office policy. The company has employee-led policies and women constitute 35 percent of the workforce of over 6,00,000. TCS has always focused on women’s employment. The situation is alarming post-Covid. Milind Lakkad, Chief Human Resources Officer […]

Jun 13, 2023

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Company replaced all Managers with Coaches, result in Happier Employees

Companies always work on employee engagement and increasing productivity. Recently, a company introduced a new innovative approach in order to boost productivity. After trending up in recent years, employee engagement in the U.S. saw its first annual decline in a decade — dropping from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 34% in 2021. This pattern continued […]

Jun 13, 2023

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OpenAI CEO ‘hopeless’ comment to India, Tech Mahindra CEO responds

The OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on a visit to India and was attending an event organized by The Economic Times. In the video, he can be heard saying that India’s chances of building a ChatGPT-like tool were ‘hopeless’. Altman was asked by former Vice President of Google in India and South East Asia and current […]

Jun 12, 2023