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The Status of Jobs in the Manufacturing Sector- Labour Ministry

As per the Economic Survey Reports, estimated employment in Manufacturing Sector in India was . cr...

Jobs

TCS Digital Hiring registration ends on April

Indias largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services TCS is hiring fresh graduates and po...

Wipro appoints Capgemini Veteran Anis Chenchah as CEO, APMEA

Bengaluru-based IT Major, Wipro Limited has announced the appointment of Anis Chenchah as member of ...

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Industry

Unacademy lays off 600 employees as part of a cost-cutting measure

Edtech unicorn Unacademy, which recently launched an experience centre- Unacademy Store, has laid off nearly 600 employees, almost 10% of its workforce. The SoftBank-backed start-up employs over 6,000 people, and this firing is said to be a cost-cutting measure. Sources familiar with the development said nearly half of the employees fired were educators, and they were […]

Appointments

KPMG appoints Accenture’s Divya Priyambada as Director – HR

KPMG, a British-Dutch multinational professional services network has appointed Divya Priyambada as Human Resources Director. Prior to this, she was associated with Accenture as HR lead- Accenture Digital India. In this new role, she is responsible for the people and culture agenda of the organization and reports to Mr. Sunit Sinha, Head of People, KPMG […]

InfoVision to hire additional 2,000 engineers in India

InfoVision Inc, a global digital services and product company, is looking to strengthen its presence in India by hiring an additional 2,000 software engineers across its the country’s development centres by 2023. The US-based services and solutions provider plans to make significant investments in India’s technology talent by ramping up its engineering services operations through […]

Industry

Google offering electric scooters to ease employees’ return to the office

As the COVID-19 pandemic starts to settle down in some parts of the globe, Google is returning its employees to in-person offices. Now, Google is offering up access to electric scooters for its employees to assist in daily commutes. To motivate employees to return to the office, Google is offering free electric scooters to them. […]

Addverb Technologies appoints Brajesh Jha as Head- HR

Addverb Technologies, leading robotics, and automation company, on Wednesday, announced the appointments of Tapan Pattnayak as Director – System Architecture and Brajesh Jha as Head HR – International & Corporate for Global Operations. These appointments come in the backdrop of Addverb’s recent global expansion across US, Singapore, Europe and Australia markets, and recent fundraise from […]

Labour Law

J&K administration extends child care leave to ‘single male employees’

A male government employee who is a divorcee or widower will now get child care leave as applicable to women in Jammu and Kashmir, according to a notification issued on Wednesday. This step has been taken by the Department of Finance as a major welfare measure for employees, following the approval of child care leave […]

CHRO Move

Orient Electric appoints Aditya Kohli as Chief Human Resources Officer

Orient Electric Limited, part of USD 2.4 billion diversified CK Birla Group, has appointed Aditya Kohli, as Chief Human Resources Officer. Aditya will be based at the company’s Head Office located in New Delhi. Aditya brings with him a rich experience of more than 23 years working in India and abroad with companies of repute […]

Everest Group appoints Swapna Allapur as Chief People Officer

Everest Group has announced the appointment of Swapna Allapur as chief people officer. Allapur, based in Bengaluru, India is responsible for the human resources strategy and operations of the firm, which employs nearly 400 people across the U.S., Canada, Europe, India, and Latin America. “We are tremendously excited to have Swapna join us and contribute […]

Persistent Systems appoints Chief of Operations and new Chief People Officer

Sameer Bendre, former Chief People Officer will take on the role of Chief of Operations. Yogesh Patgaonkar has joined Persistent Systems as the new Chief People Officer. Persistent Systems Ltd. is bolstering its leadership team by inducting senior leaders to support the company’s growth and strategic initiatives. Sameer Bendre has the responsibility for overseeing Persistent’s […]

Workday to build Dublin campus to house 1,000 more workers

Workday Inc will add 1,000 jobs at its European headquarters in Dublin over the next two years and construct a 51,000 square metre campus in the capital to accommodate the expansion, the U.S. software company said. Workday specializes in cloud-based applications for finance and human resources, and the jobs will be across product development, engineering […]

Industry

LinkedIn list: TCS, Accenture, Cognizant among ‘2022 Top Companies’

IT majors Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and Cognizant have topped the list of each of the 2022 Top Companies list for India by LinkedIn. The professional networking platform announced it on Wednesday. The firms in the list prioritize young talent, women’s representation, and retention, said the professional networking platform LinkedIn. The sixth annual edition highlights the […]

Coinbase plans to hire 1,000 people in India this year

Global crypto exchange firm Coinbase‘s Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong said that the company is planning to hire 1000 people for its India centre. Currently, Coinbase has 300 employees in India. Armstrong said that the company is planning to tap into the dynamic Indian software talent to build the product market and will continue to […]