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Updated on: Mar 2023
Air India makes another voluntary retirement offer to staff
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Air India makes another voluntary retirement offer to staff

Tata Group-owned, Air India is offering a voluntary retirement scheme for its non-flying staff. This is the second time the company is offering VRS to employees. The airline is accepting the offer for voluntary retirement till April 30. The chief human resources Suresh Dutt Tripathi of Air India has sent a communication to the staff. […]

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Meta sacks women who are on maternity leave: ‘This ending sucks’
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Meta sacks women who are on maternity leave: ‘This ending sucks’

Meta owning Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp recently announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs. It was the second wave of mass reduction from the tech company. The company earlier laid off 11,000 employees last November. As the company announced the layoff now employees have been sharing their experiences with layoffs. Recently two pregnant female employees shared their […]

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Truecaller inaugurates office in India will accommodate 250 people
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Truecaller inaugurates office in India will accommodate 250 people

Truecaller, the leading global communications and Caller ID platform, inaugurated its brand new office in the southern city of Bengaluru, India. The office was virtually inaugurated by the Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship & Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The launch of the Bengaluru office […]

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TCS MD Gopinathan quits, Krithivasan appointed CEO-designate
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TCS MD Gopinathan quits, Krithivasan appointed CEO-designate

After a stellar career of over 22 years with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and a successful stint as Managing Director & CEO during the last 6 years, Rajesh Gopinathan has decided to step down from the company to pursue his other interests. The Board of Directors has considered his request and accepted the same. Mr. […]

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Cognizant in India is hiring for various roles, Check the Details
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Cognizant in India is hiring for various roles, Check the Details

American multinational information technology services and consulting company, Cognizant is hiring for various roles globally and in India. The company said on the career page, “At Cognizant we embrace a well-established set of cultural values. Each member of our team takes responsibility for creating a culture that enables exceptional outcomes.” The company is hiring under […]

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Google Layoffs: 250 employees walk out in protest over layoffs
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Google Layoffs: 250 employees walk out in protest over layoffs

250 employees of Tech giant google in Zurich have walked out in protest of colleagues’ layoffs. The IT union Syndicom is representing the employees and the walkout started at 11:00 am. The company employees want the officials to have a conversation with workers so that the alternatives to layoffs can be presented. A Syndicom spokesperson said, […]

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ESIC adds 16.27 lakh new employees in month of January 2023
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ESIC adds 16.27 lakh new employees in month of January 2023

As per the provisional payroll data of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), 16.27 lakh new employees have been added in the month of January, 2023. A year-on-year comparison of payroll data reflects an increase of 17.88 lakh employees who paid contributions to the ESI Scheme in January 2023 as compared to January 2022. As per […]

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EY, KPMG issued an advisory on WFO to employees
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EY, KPMG issued an advisory on WFO to employees

According to ET reports, EY Global Delivery Services (EY GDS) & KPMG Global Services (KGS) have issued an advisory on the return to work policy. As the Covid cases have dropped major companies have resumed work from the office or issued notifications regarding work-from-office policies. EY Work From Office Advisory The EY GDS has also […]

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Google is bringing AI Chat to Gmail and Docs
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Google is bringing AI Chat to Gmail and Docs

The tech giant, Google is bringing AI Chat to Gmail and Docs. The new generative capabilities for business through Google Cloud, as well as a new API for developers. Google has built helpful products that people use every day — from Search and Maps to Gmail and Docs in Google Workspace. AI has been transformational […]

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Microsoft-backed OpenAI launches ChatGPT successor GPT-4
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Microsoft-backed OpenAI launches ChatGPT successor GPT-4

Microsoft-backed company OpenAI has launched a new powerful AI model, ChatGPT successor GPT-4. The GPT-4 is more creative and collaborative. The ChatGPT 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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Read Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s post on 10,000 Jobcuts
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Read Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s post on 10,000 Jobcuts

Meta (formerly named Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has written a letter for his employees when announced a fresh layoff of about 10,000 staff. The CEO also urged employees to work from the office to increase efficiency. Additionally, he also said the company’s analysis shows the employees who worked from the office fared better than those who worked […]

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Startup tells new hires they need to know ChatGPT for a job
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Startup tells new hires they need to know ChatGPT for a job

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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