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Grant Thornton Bharat rolls out return-to-work program for women

One of the worlds leading Tax and Advisory firms in the country, Grant Thornton Bharat rolls out a ...

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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 […]

Appointments

Siemens appoints Nanda Majumdar as VP & Head- People & Org

A technology company, Siemens has appointed Nanda Majumdar as Vice President & Head – People & Organization, Digital Industries India, Siemens Limited. She is an experienced HR professional with a 29-year career with broad and diverse leadership roles in Human Resources strategy and development, management consulting, communication, and business journalism. Nanda has led the Human Resources […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Survey & Report

Hiring trends positive for July-September quarter amidst layoffs

According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey was released the labour market is indicating positive sentiments in the third quarter of 2023 despite news of layoffs and anticipated global economic slowdown. Nearly half of the employers surveyed expect to increase their staffing levels, 13% anticipate a decrease in hiring intent and 34% do not anticipate any […]

Social Media

Ex-CEO Jack Dorsey alleges India threatened to Shut Down Twitter

Former Co-founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey, has said that the Narendra Modi-led government in India asked to block accounts covering farmers’ protests and those criticized the government in India. Even the company was informed that the offices of Twitter in India will be shut down and raids will be conducted against the employees if […]

Compensation

Tata Group awards huge salary hikes of 16-60% to its top officials

According to Economic Times report, Tata Group senior officials have received huge increments ranging from 16 to 60 percent. “CEOs of high-growth companies are being rewarded and have been directed to continue to focus on tapping opportunities and increasing the pace of growth,” the CEO of a Tata Group company said. “There is a big […]

Social Media

How social media helped a broke, hungry delivery agent land a job?

This is the era of social media and it has helped people in many ways. Recently social media helped a broke, hungry delivery agent land a job. Priyanshi Chandel, Marketing Manager at tech company Flash, shared an incident about a Swiggy delivery agent who had come to deliver food to her residence. Now, even he […]

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 […]

Hiring

TCS is Hiring for Various Roles, Internship, and Walk-in on June 17

An Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is hiring for various roles including internship and Walk-in interviews on 17 June. Walk-In interviews: The company is conducting walk-in interviews for various roles- TCS is hiring for several positions across the country in India. Job aspirants can visit the company’s Career Page […]

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 […]