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Updated on: Jun 2023
Linda Yaccarino New CEO first email to staff: ‘Enter Twitter 2.0’
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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 […]

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TCS women employees rejecting WFO, attrition is higher than men
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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 […]

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Company replaced all Managers with Coaches, result in Happier Employees
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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 […]

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

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Mark Zuckerberg’s email to employees on Apple Vision Pro
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Mark Zuckerberg’s email to employees on Apple Vision Pro

The Verge reported that Mark Zuckerberg in a meeting with Meta employees said that Apple’s device didn’t present any breakthroughs in technology. CEO Tim Cook described it as the first Apple product that users look through rather than at. However, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, expressed his dissatisfaction with Apple Vision Pro during a companywide […]

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TCS has high employee retention, 20% employees stay for 10+ yrs
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TCS has high employee retention, 20% employees stay for 10+ yrs

An Indian multinational information technology, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is among the few large Indian companies which have high employee retention. TCS has come a long way in retaining employees. The company is high on employee retention as 20% of employees stay for over 10 years. The company’s headcount as of March 31, 2023, stood at […]

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How India is gearing up for a US$110b GCC industry by 2030?-EY Report
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How India is gearing up for a US$110b GCC industry by 2030?-EY Report

EY, the leading professional services organization, released its ‘Future of GCCs in India – a vision 2030’ report highlighting the expansion of GCC by 2030 on account of the country’s skilled workforce, favourable business and policy environment and growing infrastructure. The report estimates that the domestic GCC market size will potentially reach US$110b by the year 2030 (from the […]

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TCS women attrition is higher than men, likely due to ending WFH
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TCS women attrition is higher than men, likely due to ending WFH

An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) said women attrition was higher than that of men likely due to the return-to-office policy, IT giant said in its Integrated Annual Report for 2022-23. Milind Lakkad, Chief Human Resources Officer at TCS said “Historically, the attrition among women employees — who constitute […]

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Infosys opens New Proximity Centre; to re-skill & up-skill talent
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Infosys opens New Proximity Centre; to re-skill & up-skill talent

Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, announced a new Proximity Centre in Oslo, Norway as part of its continued expansion plan in the Nordics. The new state-of-the-art centre will enable Infosys to attract, re-skill, and up-skill local talent to work on global opportunities through next-gen technologies like cloud, AI, IoT, 5G, […]

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Accenture Cyber Million program to help access 1 million job; apply
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Accenture Cyber Million program to help access 1 million job; apply

Immersive Labs, a leader in people-centric cyber resilience, and Accenture are working together to launch the Cyber Million program that aims to solve the cybersecurity talent deficit by increasing access to one million entry-level cybersecurity operations jobs over the next decade. The beta version of the program, rolling out today, will be powered by the Immersive Labs platform with […]

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KPMG in India executive training programmes for HR professionals
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KPMG in India executive training programmes for HR professionals

KPMG in India and the NHRD Bangalore Chapter announced that they would be coming together to offer a variety of short virtual instructor led executive training programmes specifically targeted at Human Resources (‘HR’) professionals across various levels. These programmes will allow HR professionals to hone specific skills that they need to build and learn outside […]

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TCS says it is out of ‘Vicious Cycle’ of hiring and counter hiring
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TCS says it is out of ‘Vicious Cycle’ of hiring and counter hiring

An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, TCS Asserts End Of “Vicious Cycle” Of Hiring And Counter Hiring Amid Recession Fears. According to a report in Livemint.com, TCS has laid emphasis on the supply side challenges of the last two years. Tata Consultancy Services has reportedly said that it has escaped the “vicious cycle” of […]

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