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Updated on: Nov 2022

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Twitter engineer fired for helping coworkers who faced layoffs

Nov 9, 2022

Standard Chartered Bank officers union protest against violation of HR norms

The All India Bank Officers Confederation AIBOC has alleged violation of HR practices by fo...

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Nov 8, 2022

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Fired by error, Twitter asks some laid-off workers to come back

The microblogging and social networking service, Twitter has sacked close to , people. Some of t...

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Nov 7, 2022

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Twitter has fired the majority of employees in India

According to an internal memo sent to Twitter employees, the new management under Elon Musk has begu...

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Nov 6, 2022

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Amazon holds hiring in corporate workforce due to slow economy

An American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, Amazon has announced the company will be freezing all its new hiring in its corporate workforce. Amazon has taken this step due to global economic uncertainty. The company’s CEO Andy Jassy has been looking for ways to cut costs across the company. Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice […]

Nov 4, 2022

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Adani Group to invest Rs.1 lakh cr in Karnataka to expand footprint

An Indian multinational conglomerate, Adani Group has announced that it plans to invest almost Rs. 1 lakh crore over next seven years in Karnataka. Adani said, “Karnataka government’s alignment with our nation’s vision to become the world’s digital hub has produced unprecedented growth in the state.” “$65 billion worth of IT exports, around a third of our […]

Nov 3, 2022

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LTTS inaugurates R&D Center in Toronto, to hire over 100 engrs

L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS), a leading global pure-play engineering services company, announced today the unveiling of its Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) Center in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), marking its third nearshore global design center in two quarters. The ER&D Center in Toronto will initially focus on developing digital solutions for the transportation sector including railway […]

Nov 2, 2022

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Twitter staff told to work 12-hour shifts, 7 days a week, Reports

According to reports, The microblogging and social networking service, Twitter staff at the company have set tasks so that it can be seen who works hard in Musk’s team. The teams of Twitter’s engineers have been assigned coding projects to be completed over the weekend. Twitter managers have told some staff to work 12-hour shifts, […]

Nov 2, 2022

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Tech Mahindra supports side gigs amid moonlighting- CP Gurnani

IT major, Tech Mahindra CEO and MD, C P Gurnani said that we support side gigs as the company is a digital company and not a legacy firm. C P Gurnani shared his views that employees should not hide such instances as sometimes this may also add value to their CV. Additionally, the employees should inform the […]

Nov 2, 2022

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Tech Mahindra reports attrition rate of 20%, will continue hiring

An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, Tech Mahindra announces its Q2FY23 performance results on November 1, 2022. Bucking industry trends, Tech Mahindra’s attrition dropped year-on-year as well from the year-ago quarter. Tech Mahindra reported a decline in attrition rate to 20 percent in the quarter that ended September 30, 2022, the attrition in Q1 was […]

Nov 1, 2022

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Indian startups make deep hiring cuts, hiring down by 61%

Ever Since 2019 the pandemic, companies have been struggling. Now, according to a new report, Indian startups are going through steep hiring cuts and the hiring of permanent employees has dipped by a significant 61 per cent. The report was analyzed from Oct 2021 to September 2022 of more than 25,000 employees across over 1,000 […]

Nov 1, 2022

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Borzo onboards 4,000 delivery partners

A leading courier delivery service, Borzo has announced that it has onboarded 4,000 delivery riders in the last two months. Eugene Panfilov, General Manager, of Borzo India, said, “The first post-pandemic year looks very promising as consumer sentiments are high. The expectation from this year’s upcoming festive season from Diwali to Christmas is robust demand.” […]

Nov 1, 2022

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Elon Musk asked to prepare a list of Twitter employees to be sacked

On October 4, Musk agreed to proceed on his originally proposed terms, and a Delaware Chancery Court judge gave the two sides until Oct. 28 to wrap up the deal. That deadline was met, and now Musk, who is CEO of both Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, also controls Twitter, a service he uses often but criticizes […]

Oct 31, 2022

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Capgemini organised Prithvi Mela in Hyderabad

Last week, a french multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, Capgemini organized a Prithvi Mela in Hyderabad. Sharing the information company said through a post, “We recently organized Prithvi Mela, a unique fair to inspire and empower all our employees to adopt a more environment-friendly lifestyle, at our Hyderabad campus.” “The objective was to create awareness and engage […]

Oct 29, 2022

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Anand Mahindra & Vijay Shekhar Sharma React to Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Twitter has been taken over by Elon Musk, and many Indian Industrialists like Anand Mahindra & Vijay Shekhar Sharma have reacted to Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover. However, Musk has terminated Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde. According to ET, Most teams have been […]

Oct 29, 2022

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Employee accused of taking the car on 220km joyride

According to TOI, In a recent case, an employee Amit Badgurjar (accused) who was posted as an office boy in the dealership escaped along with a brand-new demo car on Sunday night around 10 pm. This incident took place at the Chunabhatti-based car showroom. The case was logged by another employee Janoriya an HR Manager […]

Oct 28, 2022