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Updated on: Feb 2023
Google fired an employee to launch its own venture within notice period
Industry

Google fired an employee to launch its own venture within notice period

Recently, An American multinational technology company, Google parent Alphabet announced to sack 12,000 employees. Henry Kirk worked as a manager at Google for eight years. He has decided to start his venture with six former colleagues who had also been laid off. Henry Kirk, Engineering Manager (Senior TLM), iOS/Android, Google shared a LinkedIn Post saying, “I have […]

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TCS is hiring for various positions, freshers can also apply
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TCS is hiring for various positions, freshers can also apply

India’s largest IT Services Provider TCS is hiring for various positions for experienced people and freshers. Yesterday, amid the layoff wave, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Chief Human Resources officer Milind Lakkad said that TCS will be looking to hire such impacted employees. Earlier, while announcing the Q3FY23 financial results, the company said it will hire 1.25 lakh […]

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Pinnacle brings Women-Only recruitment campaign on Feb23-24
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Pinnacle brings Women-Only recruitment campaign on Feb23-24

India’s only integrated commercial vehicle seating & interiors company, Pinnacle announces the women-only recruitment campaign “EvolutioNARI” on February 23-24. Additionally, The company is also providing immediate joining to eligible professionals with a reduced probation period and retention bonus. Speaking on the launch of the women-only recruitment campaign, Arihant Mehta, President of Pinnacle Industries, said “We […]

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P&G India launches Lead With Care program to support employees
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P&G India launches Lead With Care program to support employees

Procter & Gamble (P&G India) today announced the ‘Lead With Care’ Program that offers holistic support to employees who are caregivers to children with disabilities and special needs. Effective April 1, 2023, this program will enable employees to avail early preventive care and treatment for children impacted by specific neurodevelopmental, cognitive, behavioral, or physical impairments. […]

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Wipro cuts freshers’ pay by 50% amid onboarding delays
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Wipro cuts freshers’ pay by 50% amid onboarding delays

An Indian multinational corporation, Wipro has reduced the employee’s salary by 50 percent from Rs 6.5 lakh to Rs 3.5 lakh per annum. Wipro provides training to freshers employees. This gives an opportunity to the Elite fresher candidate to upgrade to the ‘Turbo’ category. This also upgrades the salary package of employees. Now, As per […]

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EPFO adds 14.93 lakh net members in December 2022
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EPFO adds 14.93 lakh net members in December 2022

The provisional payroll data of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) highlights that EPFO has added 14.93 lakh net members in December 2022. A year-on-year comparison of payroll data reflects an increase of 32,635 in net membership addition in December 2022 as compared to the corresponding month during last year in 2021. Out of 14.93 […]

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Ericsson to layoff 1,400 jobs in Sweden to reduce cost
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Ericsson to layoff 1,400 jobs in Sweden to reduce cost

A Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company, Ericsson plans to cut about 1,400 jobs in Sweden. Additionally, Ericsson will be cutting more jobs that will be affecting several thousand people in other countries in the coming days. The company had earlier announced plans to cut costs by 9 billion crowns ($880 million) by the end of […]

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IBM CEO thinks ChatGPT is taking white-collar jobs, it’s good thing
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IBM CEO thinks ChatGPT is taking white-collar jobs, it’s good thing

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot developed by OpenAI that is designed to generate human-like responses to natural language queries. It has been trained on a massive amount of text data from the internet, including books, articles, and web pages. ChatGPT can be used in a variety of applications, such as chatbots, virtual assistants, […]

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Jeevika Skill Development Program to train Over 60K Rural, Urban Youth
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Jeevika Skill Development Program to train Over 60K Rural, Urban Youth

Lotus Petal Foundation’s flagship training & placement program Jeevika Skill Development Program will be providing training to over 6000 Rural and Urban Youth by 2025. Jeevika is the skill development program of Lotus Petal Foundation. It focuses on senior secondary students. The students complete their education along with courses that enable them to be ready […]

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JioSaavn is inviting applications for Paid Internship, Apply here
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JioSaavn is inviting applications for Paid Internship, Apply here

Indian online music streaming service and digital distributor company, JioSaavn is inviting applications for Paid Internship for Audience Experience Full-time (Paid internship). Commenting on the hiring process the company said, “We’re looking for a super passionate intern to join our Audience Experience team. The Audience Experience team manages customer conversations from across the globe over various […]

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Meta gives poor performance reviews to thousands of employees
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Meta gives poor performance reviews to thousands of employees

According to Wall Street Journal reports, American multinational technology conglomerate, Meta (formerly named Facebook) has given poor performance reviews to around 7,000 employees. The company has marked the employees as “subpar” in recent performance reviews. The parent firm of Facebook and Instagram also got rid of a bonus metric. The reports also suggest that Meta CEO […]

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Narwal appoints Amit Sahoo as Global Head- HR
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Narwal appoints Amit Sahoo as Global Head- HR

A niche technology company, Narwal has announced the appointment of Amit Sahoo as Global Head- Human Resources. In this role, Amit will be responsible is to oversee the People strategy and ensuring that it aligns with the organization’s ambitious trajectory of rapid expansion, bolstering efficiency, and cultivating a culture of professionalism. According to Raj Kanuparthi, the […]

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