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Updated on: Aug 2021

Appointments

BYJUS appoints Suman Rudra as Vice President HR

Aug 23, 2021

EPFO adds . lakh net subscribers in the month of June

EPFO Employees Provident Funds Organization has a growing trend and added . lakh net subscrib...

EPFO

Aug 23, 2021

TCS to get rid of Office Life for many employees in India

Indiss largest IT major, Tata Consultancy Services TCS wouldnt call back all of its ...

Industry

Aug 22, 2021

Latest news: TCS to get rid of Office Life for many employees in India - SightsIn Plus

UST Global to hire over , employees this year

The California-headquartered, Digital Transformation Solutions, and Information Technology company U...

Jobs

Aug 22, 2021

Latest news: UST Global to hire over , employees this year - SightsIn Plus

Jobs

37,000 resigned, Infosys to hire 35,000 freshers globally in FY22

India’s second-largest IT services provider, Infosys plans to hire 35,000 college graduates in FY22 globally, said Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys. Infosys had hired 21,000 in FY21. The company has made net hiring of 8000 in the quarter ending June 2021. Currently, the company has a total headcount of 2.67 lakh employees till June 30, 2021. Also […]

Aug 22, 2021

C-Suite Move

Accenture Interactive appoints David Droga as CEO & Creative Chairman

Accenture has appointed acclaimed creative icon David Droga, founder and chairman of Droga5, as Accenture Interactive’s new CEO and creative chairman, effective September 1, 2021. Brian Whipple, who has led Accenture Interactive for the last ten years, has announced his retirement from Accenture. Under Brian’s leadership, in fiscal year 2020 (ended Aug. 31, 2020), Accenture Interactive […]

Aug 21, 2021

C-Suite Move

HCL Technologies appoints a new Country Head for Brazil

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, has appointed Fabiano Funari as the country head for Brazil. Funari joined the organization to spearhead HCL’s growth for all industries and capabilities in Brazil, where HCL employs more than 800 people across its national headquarters in Sao Paulo and delivery centers in Sao Paulo, Sau Leopoldo, […]

Aug 21, 2021

Partnership

TCS expands its strategic partnership with Google Cloud

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to offer companies a full complement of services and solutions leveraging TCS’ domain-focused innovation and Google Cloud’s suite of technologies. These services help companies achieve superior business outcomes from cloud transformation initiatives to gain resilience, better customer experience, and the flexibility of an […]

Aug 21, 2021

Jobs

Oyo to hire 300 employees over six months for multiple roles

Global travel technology company, OYO has announced that it will hire over 300 technology professionals over the next six months. The roles include software development, engineering and product managers, designers, data scientists across entry-level to senior leadership positions. ”At Oyo, we believe in the philosophy to keep the ‘geek’ alive in our techies…We’ve been blessed […]

Aug 21, 2021

EPFO

EPFO: What is the last date to Link your UAN with Aadhaar?

EPFO: The last date to Link your UAN with Aadhaar remains unchanged, August 31, 2021 EPFO has announced to link your UAN (Universal Account Number) with the Aadhaar by August 31, 2021, if it’s not linked with your Aadhaar then your employer will not be able to make monthly contributions to your Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) account. […]

Aug 21, 2021

Industry

Why TCS has the lowest Attrition Rate among IT giants?

India’s largest IT major, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported an 8.6% attrition in the past year while announcing its first-quarter results of the financial year 2021-22. According to the TCS report, it was 7.2% in the previous fourth quarter of the financial year 2020-2021. Which has increased to 8.6% in three months. There is […]

Aug 21, 2021

CHRO Move

Subhankar Ghose has joined Nalanda Learning Systems as CHRO

Subhankar Ghose has joined Avishkar backed EDTECH company Nalanda Learning Systems Pvt Ltd, as Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to this, he was working with ROI Net Solutions as CHRO for close to 2 years. As a part of the senior leadership team at Nalanda, Ghose is responsible for Performance Management, Talent Acquisition & creating […]

Aug 20, 2021

Industry

Apple delays return to office until Jan 2022 amid Covid surge

Apple has delayed its return to office until at least January 2022, as the US witnesses a surge in cases of the delta variant of Covid-19. The iPhone maker said the employees would get a month’s notice before they rejoin work in-person, reports The Verge, citing an internal email. “I know there are feeling of frustration that the pandemic […]

Aug 20, 2021

Industry

Amazon warehouse offers $3,000 signing bonus to attract workers

Amazon warehouse in Delaware is offering hefty signing bonuses in an effort to attract hundreds of new workers. The facility in Wilmington will give incoming workers $3,000 bonuses, Delaware Online reports. The maximum hourly pay for a team member at the warehouse is $19.75, according to a job posting. At this rate, the bonus is equivalent to […]

Aug 20, 2021

Jobs

L&T Infotech to hire 4,500 freshers this fiscal to deal with Attrition

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (L&T Infotech) is hiring 4,500 freshers this year, compared to 3,000 last year, as it faces high attrition rate like rival companies Cognizant, Infosys, and TCS, etc. As of the June quarter, the city-headquartered firm employs 38,300, of them as much as 78 per cent are deployed at its offshore centres. […]

Aug 20, 2021

Strike

Mondelez workers on strike at Virginia bakery plant

Hundreds of workers at a Mondelez International bakery in Virginia are on strike, seeking to block the company’s demands for concessions in contract negotiations and end what the union calls the outsourcing of jobs to Mexico. About 400 workers from the plant in Henrico started striking Monday, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The plant makes foods like Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Chips […]

Aug 20, 2021