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Updated on: Aug 2021
Hiring increased 11% in Q1, June ended Quarter: Survey
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Hiring increased 11% in Q1, June ended Quarter: Survey

Hiring in the organised sector increased by 11 per cent in the quarter ended June, the latest edition of Indeed India Hiring Tracker showed on Monday. Standout growth was witnessed in information technology (61 per cent), financial services (48 per cent) and BPO/ITeS (47 per cent) as the job market begins showing signs of recovery from Covid […]

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Panasonic India elevates Manish Sharma as Chairman and President
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Panasonic India elevates Manish Sharma as Chairman and President

Japanese electronics company Panasonic Corporation announced the elevation of Manish Sharma as Chairman and President of Panasonic India, effective from 1 October 2021. He will continue to serve as President and CEO, Panasonic India and South Asia. Additionally, Manish will assume responsibility for leading the Panasonic Operational Excellence India, and Panasonic India Appliances Company, Lifestyle […]

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Procter & Gamble appoints Shailesh Jejurikar as new global COO
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Procter & Gamble appoints Shailesh Jejurikar as new global COO

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has elevated Shailesh Jejurikar as the global Chief Operating Officer, making him the first Indian to take over this role. His appointment is effective from October1, 2021, the company said in the press release. This is in line with the change at the Chief Executive Officer level with Jon Moeller taking […]

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Tata Motors lost 91 people from its ecosystem due to Covid-19
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Tata Motors lost 91 people from its ecosystem due to Covid-19

Tata Motors lost 91 people from its ecosystem due to COVID-19 and it “will do everything” it can to support their families, company Chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Friday. Even after enduring “the fiscal year 2021” which has been “amongst the most challenging to date”, the company is on track to become a zero-debt company by the financial […]

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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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