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Updated on: Mar 2022

Hiring

Mindtree opens its first development center in Kolkata, plans robust hiring

Mar 26, 2022

XLRI Jamshedpur to provide HR training to Coal India employees

A memorandum of understanding MoU has been signed between Coal India CIL and the Xavier School o...

Partnership

Mar 26, 2022

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How TCS, Infosys, HCL are planning to call employees back to office

The concept of work from home has begun for most employees when the first Covid- lockdown was anno...

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Mar 26, 2022

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DealShare appoints Santana Ramakrishnan as Chief HR Officer

DealShare, the social e-commerce pioneer and recent unicorn, today announced the appointment of Sant...

CHRO Move

Mar 25, 2022

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Appointments

Yahoo appoints Alicin Reidy-Williamson as Chief Diversity & Culture Officer

Yahoo has appointed Alicin Reidy-Williamson as Chief Diversity & Culture Officer. In this role, she will lead Yahoo’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts globally. “Reidy-Williamson will be based in New York and will directly report to CEO Jim Lanzone, and work closely with leaders at Yahoo to grow a diverse workforce and strengthen policies, […]

Mar 25, 2022

Hiring

Publicis Sapient to double its workforce in India, hiring in process

Publicis Sapient, a global digital business transformation company, after it recorded more than 13.8 per cent growth in 2021, plans to double its employee base in India over the next two years, Global CEO Nigel Vaz told BusinessLine. Publicis Sapient is an American digital consulting company. During the course of the pandemic, the company had […]

Mar 25, 2022

Employment

TCS iON offers a 15-day free digital certification program

TCS iON, the strategic unit of India’s biggest IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced a free 15 days online course “TCS iON Career Edge’ for young professionals. According to the company, this 15-day course will help the job seekers to improve their core employability skills such as communication, collaboration, business etiquette, financial and digital literacy, etc. Also […]

Mar 25, 2022

Partnership

Simplilearn and JobsForHer come together to upskill 1000 women

Simplilearn, an online bootcamp & certification course provider company has announced the partnership with JobsForHer, an online platform for women’s careers, to train and upskill 1000 women by the next year in Full Stack Java Development, making them job-ready for the future. This programme, is specially designed as ‘women-exclusive’ initiative and it is aiming is […]

Mar 25, 2022

Labour Law

Karnataka High Court on ‘Work From Home’ under Maternity Benefit Act

The Karnataka High Court said that Mothers of newborn babies can avail work from home options once their maternity leave are up. However, WFH could be given only in cases where the nature of work assigned to the women is such that it is possible for her to work from home. Case background: The petitioner, […]

Mar 24, 2022

Hiring

Nagarro is hiring for various WFH and WFA Jobs in India, details here

IT service management company Nagarro said that it is planning to add 4,500 people to its workforce globally in the coming months, which will also include freshers. The 4,500 positions are open for lateral hiring and also company plans to hire many youngsters fresh out of college. These numbers are required to support Nagarro’s growth and cover […]

Mar 24, 2022

News

Unemployment rate cooled to 9.8% in Sept quarter of 2021 as curbs eased

The unemployment rate for persons of age 15 years and above in urban areas dipped to 9.8 per cent in July-September 2021 from 13.2 per cent in the same quarter of the previous year, according to a periodic labour force survey (PLFS) by the National Statistical Office (NSO). The September quarter of 2021 has shown […]

Mar 24, 2022

EPFO

Employees Provident Fund contributions above Rs. 2.5 Lakh to be taxed

The Centre has planned to tax Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributions exceeding Rs. 2.50 lakh yearly. For government employees, the limit has been set at a higher end of Rs. 5 lakh. Under new Income Tax (I-T) Rules, PF accounts are likely to be divided into two parts one is taxable and the other is non-taxable contribution accounts from […]

Mar 24, 2022

C-Suite Move

Colliers appoints Kanchana Krishnan as Managing Director, Chennai

Colliers, the leading diversified professional services and investment management company today announced the appointment of Kanchana Krishnan as Managing Director, Chennai, with immediate effect. Kanchana is a highly-seasoned real estate professional and one of the senior-most industry leaders in Chennai. Kanchana has close to two decades of experience in the commercial real estate industry in […]

Mar 24, 2022

Industry

Cognizant announces new logo and tagline

The US-based IT company, Cognizant, has unveiled its new logo and tagline, ‘Intuition engineered‘. Its new brand positioning is designed to better reflect the company’s expertise in digital technologies and accelerating digital business. The company has a large presence in India and also has aggressively expanded its capabilities into the areas of artificial intelligence, cloud, […]

Mar 24, 2022

Hiring

TCS Ninja Hiring, Registrations ends on March 25

India’s largest IT services provider company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is hiring about 1,00,000 freshers in the financial year 2022 due to strong demand for tech talent. TCS added 28,238 people in the q3, December 2021 ending quarter, a mix of fresh engineering graduates and lateral hires with a consolidated headcount of over 5 lakhs with a diverse workforce comprising 147 […]

Mar 24, 2022

News

Digital skills set to rise by 27.3 million over next year among Indian workers: Report

The number of Indian workers requiring digital skills for their jobs is set to rise by 27.3 million, representing seven per cent of India’s workforce, over the next year, as per a report. Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has released its findings from a new research report that has revealed that digital skills […]

Mar 23, 2022