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Tata Steel plans to cut up to , jobs

Nov 19, 2019

in India hiring managers forecast a growing workforce

Despite government figures suggesting that unemployment is at a -year high, more than in ...

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Nov 19, 2019

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Cognizant Fires Employee Union Leader Citing Performance Issues

Cognizant Fires an employee Elavarasan Raja holds the position of General Secretary at FITE, which i...

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Nov 15, 2019

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Infosys Lays Off , Middle and Senior Level Executives

According to Times of India reports, after Cognizant, now Infosys is laying off over , middle a...

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Nov 6, 2019

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HCL Tech launches a dedicated Google Cloud Business Unit, plans to expand the team to 5,000 people

HCL Technologies has announced the launch of HCL’s Google Cloud Business Unit to accelerate enterprise cloud adoption worldwide. This dedicated business group within HCL will be supported by engineering, solutions, and business teams from Google Cloud. The new expansive and strategic partnership between HCL and Google Cloud will help organizations advance their digital transformation agendas powered […]

Nov 1, 2019Read Story

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Vodafone rolls out 16 weeks fully-paid parental leave

Telecom giant Vodafone announced today that all its employees worldwide will be offered 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave. Any employee whose partner is having a baby adopts a child or becomes a parent through surrogacy will have the flexibility to take up to 16 weeks paid leave at any time during the first 18 […]

Nov 1, 2019Read Story

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Cognizant to lay off 7,000 employees

IT Major Cognizant plans to lay off at least 7,000 mid-senior level employees over the next few quarters. The company has also announced it would exit the content moderation business for clients such as Facebook and Google – a move that will affect another 6,000 jobs. The decision comes after a few investigations raised questions […]

Oct 31, 2019Read Story

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40,000 telecom jobs at risk over the next six months

The Indian telecom sector is staring at 40,000 job cuts over the next six months. Following the Supreme Court’s verdict asking telcos to pay up Rs 92,641 crore to the department of telecom (DoT) over the AGR (adjusted gross revenues) dispute, telecom companies might have to reduce their workforce by about 20 percent. “The Supreme […]

Oct 30, 2019Read Story

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Suzlon Energy faces an exodus of Independent Directors due to defaulter status

Suzlon, India’s leading wind turbine manufacturer company has seen an exodus of independent directors recently. All independent Indian directors including bank nominees have resigned from the board over the past two months. According to Business Line reports, Suzlon, India’s leading wind turbine manufacturer, defaulted on payment of Rs 1,169 crore ($172 million) due to its […]

Oct 24, 2019Read Story

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Wipro’s new plan to deal with employee attrition

IT major Wipro is planning to promote around 5,000 employees in the coming quarters, to check attrition and make the IT firm ready for future demand. “Attrition (rate) has been a good story for us as compared to others. We have given salary hikes and now are looking at a huge number of promotions in […]

Oct 22, 2019Read Story

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Swiggy to hire 3 lakh people in the next 18 months

Swiggy has said that the company plans to bring on board an additional 300,000 delivery executives within the next year and a half. That will take the total headcount to 500,000. At the company’s Tech Conference, Gigabytes which was held on 18th October 2019, Friday, Swiggy’s CEO, Sriharsha Majety expressed confidence over the company’s future […]

Oct 20, 2019Read Story

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Uber lays off 350 more workers in the last wave of cuts

Highlights Uber has been downsizing its global team amid mounting losses These are expected to impact Uber’s businesses in the country Uber has 350-400 employees in India Uber has just laid off around 350 employees across a variety of teams within the organization. The company says its third and final phase of layoffs of the […]

Oct 16, 2019Read Story

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Cognizant to invest more on employees’ Reskilling & Technical Education

IT major Cognizant drawing its attention back to reskilling initiatives to bolster growth. Economic Times reports, CEO, Brian Humphries said that the company will double its investment in technical education next year. Humphries has also asked employees to pledge to learn one new skill each quarter and to mentor one colleague each quarter. Referring to […]

Oct 15, 2019Read Story

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TCS is increasing the proportion of variable pay that’s linked to performance

According to Economic Times Reports, India’s IT Major TCS is also increasing the proportion of variable pay that’s linked to performance for experienced engineers as part of the rejig.- The process called Pyramid Rationalization — is predicated on having a larger number of employees with less than four years of experience and fewer employees with […]

Oct 15, 2019Read Story

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Consumer durables, FMCG & retail sectors push talent demand for festive hiring- TimesJobs

Consumer durables, FMCG & retail sectors push talent demand for festive hiring: TimesJobsRecruiteX September 2019 New Delhi, October 10, 2019: With the beginning of the festive season, consumer-driven sectors such as consumer durables/FMCG (5%) and retail (12%) reported growth in talent demand in September 2019, says TimesJobsRecruiteX. Healthcare/Pharmaceuticals industry recorded the highest growth in talent demand […]

Oct 10, 2019Read Story