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Updated on: Aug 2021
Diageo India rolls out 26 weeks parental leave policy, regardless of gender
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Diageo India rolls out 26 weeks parental leave policy, regardless of gender

Diageo India has announced a 26-week parental leave policy to all employees, regardless of gender, after birth/adoption of a child. The policy is effective from July 30, 2021. The policy offers all eligible employees a 26-week parental leave, comprising all benefits and bonuses, irrespective of gender or sexual orientation. This policy includes surrogacy, adoption, and biological conception. […]

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Over 23,000 Cognizant employees have left in the first quarter of this year
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Over 23,000 Cognizant employees have left in the first quarter of this year

The US-based information technology (IT) consulting company Cognizant, one of the world’s leading professional services companies has announced its first-quarter 2021 financial results on July 28, 2021. Cognizant’s attrition for the first quarter escalated to a record high of 31%, of which 29% was voluntary attrition. The company has a total headcount of 301,200. A rough calculation shows […]

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Uber delays office return, makes vaccination mandatory for U.S. staff
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Uber delays office return, makes vaccination mandatory for U.S. staff

Uber Technologies Inc is pushing back its back-to-office date to late October globally, and all employees in the United States will have to be fully vaccinated before returning to office, a spokesperson said on Thursday. The news comes a day after major tech companies including Twitter Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc said all U.S. […]

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Coca-Cola India President Sanket Ray on the Future of Workplace
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Coca-Cola India President Sanket Ray on the Future of Workplace

The pandemic has forced people to contemplate their work-life balance and be more aware of mental health and wellness, which is going to drive the trend of the hybrid workplace, Coca-Cola President for India and Southwest Asia, Sanket Ray said on Thursday. “What we are seeing is that over the last two years many of […]

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Freshers hiring to go up 7% points in the current quarter – TeamLease
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Freshers hiring to go up 7% points in the current quarter – TeamLease

According to TeamLease Employment Outlook (July- Sept, 2021), the hiring trends that took a beating and sunk by 86 percentage points from the previous half-year are showing signs of gradual improvement since Unlock 1.0. The report also says that the intent to hire freshers has increased by 7 per cent in the current quarter. Further, the […]

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Vinay Ranjan joins Coal India as Director– Personnel & Industrial Relations
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Vinay Ranjan joins Coal India as Director– Personnel & Industrial Relations

Coal India Limited on Thursday announced that Vinay Ranjan has taken over as its Director- Personnel and Industrial Relations, effective from July 28, 2021. Prior to this, he was working as Director- Personnel at West Bengal-based Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of CIL for three years. Ranjan joins the company at a time when the […]

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Tech Mahindra reports attrition at 17%, to hire above 15K freshers in FY22
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Tech Mahindra reports attrition at 17%, to hire above 15K freshers in FY22

Yesterday, IT services provider, Tech Mahindra has announced its Q1 results for the financial year 2022. The company has reported 30.8% rise in its net profit for the first quarter of fiscal 2022 at Rs 1,353.2 crore as against Rs 1,081.4 crore in the quarter ended March 2021. The company has added 5,200 employees in the […]

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HCL Technologies appoints Jill Kouri as Global Chief Marketing Officer
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HCL Technologies appoints Jill Kouri as Global Chief Marketing Officer

HCL Technologies today announced Jill Kouri’s addition to the executive team as Chief Marketing Officer. Kouri joins HCL Technologies most recently from JLL, where she was Chief Marketing Officer, Americas, for seven years. Prior to that, she spent 14 years in increasingly senior marketing leadership roles at Accenture. She is a top marketing executive with […]

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3i Infotech makes a slew of leadership hires to fuel its global expansion
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3i Infotech makes a slew of leadership hires to fuel its global expansion

3i Infotech Limited, a global Information Technology company, committed to accelerating business transformation, has announced a series of senior-level appointments with immediate effect. This includes Sax Krishna as Chief Growth Officer, Sudeep Nadkarni as Chief Revenue Officer – Large Deals, Sushant Purushan as EVP & India Business Head, Cloud First & Digital, IMS leadership team, and Rangapriya Goutham […]

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Cognizant to hire 1 lakh experienced people and 30,000 freshers in 2021
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Cognizant to hire 1 lakh experienced people and 30,000 freshers in 2021

Cognizant, one of the world’s leading professional services companies, yesterday has announced its second-quarter 2021 financial results. Revenue of $4.6 billion grew 14.6% year-over-year (12.0% in constant currency(1)) Digital revenue grew approximately 20% year-over-year $1.5 billion deployed on acquisitions, share repurchases and dividends year-to-date 2021 revenue growth guidance increased to 10.2-11.2%, or 9.0-10.0% in constant […]

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EY Appoints Neeraj Mohan to Lead EY-Parthenon in India
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EY Appoints Neeraj Mohan to Lead EY-Parthenon in India

EY, the leading global professional services organisation, on Wednesday said it has inducted Neeraj Mohan as a partner and India leader for EY-Parthenon, the firm’s arm for strategy and transactions practice. Mohan will be responsible for helping clients build and measure their long-term value creation goals through transformative strategies and maximising opportunities in the entire transaction lifecycle. He […]

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Google delays return to office, mandates vaccines
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Google delays return to office, mandates vaccines

Google is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The announcement Wednesday came as the more highly contagious delta variant is driving a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. In an […]

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