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Urban Company to onboard over 20,000 professionals this year Home services marketplace Urban Company said it aims to onboard over 20,000 professionals on its platform this year to meet the strong growth in demand for various services post the lockdown. Currently, the company has more than 40,000 gig workers on its platform, of which over 35,000 are present in […]
India antitrust watchdog orders probe into WhatsApp’s new privacy policy India’s competition watchdog on Wednesday ordered a probe into a WhatsApp privacy policy update, saying the Facebook Inc-owned messaging service had breached antitrust laws. The update announced in January, which will take effect in May, allows WhatsApp to share some user data with Facebook and […]
Tata Sons Restores Pay and offers Salary Hikes from April 2021 Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata Group has restored staff salaries to the pre-Covid levels and is likely to announce pay hikes from April 2021. Remarkably, the top executives of Tata group companies’ had taken around 20% pay cuts in 2020 to keep costs low […]
Impact of lockdown on IT hub Bengaluru a year after Life has come full circle for Nawaz (name changed), as the COVID-induced lockdown completes a year. The coronavirus took a deadly toll on this 47-year-old software engineer in Bengaluru, considered the Silicon City of India with maximum IT firms operating here. “I lost my job first and then […]
Uttarakhand govt appoints panel to look into sexual harassment complaints at workplace The Uttarakhand government has appointed a committee to redress complaints of sexual harassment against women at the workplace. Headed by Additional Chief Secretary Radha Raturi. The panel consists of six members, said the order issued by H C Semwal, Secretary, Department of Women Empowerment and Child […]
Telangana government has announced 30% pay hike, retirement age increased by 3 years The Telangana government has announced a 30% pay hike for over nine lakh state government employees and teachers as per the 11th Pay Revision recommendations. The government has also decided to increase their retirement age from 58 years to 61 years, chief […]
Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despite easing of virus ban Several of San Francisco Bay Area’s largest technology companies including Twitter Inc and Google plan to keep their offices largely closed for months more despite the government allowing them on Tuesday to be opened in a limited capacity. Taking into […]
Tata Consultancy Services is looking for ‘Talent on Cloud’ Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT firm, is looking for ‘talent on cloud’ — literally. A vital part of its efforts to reimagine its human resources strategy is the focus on the fungibility of talent. The company is also looking at creating an algorithm-based talent […]
Xiaomi India rewarding employees with hardship bonus Xiaomi India is rewarding half-a-month hardship bonus for all its employees, as a token of thanks for his or her work in the course of the pandemic. Manu Jain, Managing Director of the company said, “this allowance will be in addition to the salary hike and bonus paid […]
Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices: KPMG Most major global companies no longer plan to reduce their use of office space after the coronavirus pandemic, though few expect business to return to normal this year, a survey by accountants KPMG showed on Tuesday. Just 17% of chief executives plan to cut back on offices, down from […]
Haryana Jobs Quota: Gurugram firms ready to shift to Noida, Bhiwadi The Haryana government’s nod to the Bill providing 75 percent reservation in the private sector to job seekers from the state, have far-reaching effects on industries in Gurugram. Several industry entrepreneurs in Gurugram are preparing to shift their businesses and establishments to Noida’s Sector-29 […]
Microsoft announces to reopen headquarters from March 29 Microsoft on Monday announced to slowly reopen its Redmond, Washington-based headquarters and nearby campuses from March 29 with a six-stage hybrid workplace strategy. The company said that while stages 4 and 5 offer limited or augmented options for workers who choose to be on-site, employees are encouraged […]
