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Updated on: Jan 2020
Amazon to create 10 lakh new jobs in India by 2025
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Amazon to create 10 lakh new jobs in India by 2025

Amazon announced that it is planning to create 1 million new jobs in India by 2025 through continued investments in technology, infrastructure, and logistics network. This comes three days after company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos visited India. According to Amazon press statement, the jobs will be created both directly and indirectly across industries, including […]

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Flipkart to create 5,000 local Jobs, opens two warehouses in Haryana
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Flipkart to create 5,000 local Jobs, opens two warehouses in Haryana

Walmart-owned Flipkart on January 14 said that it is strengthening its supply chain infrastructure by setting up two warehouses (fulfilment centres or FCs) in Haryana, a move that will create about 5,000 jobs locally. With these two FCs, Flipkart now has 12 assets in Haryana, including supply chain infrastructure for large appliances, non-large (including mobiles, […]

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Oyo rooms notifies employees about layoffs via emails
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Oyo rooms notifies employees about layoffs via emails

SoftBank-backed Oyo to fire 2,400 employees in India over this week, it has begun the process of notifying thousands of staffers individually about their status in the organization through individual emails. The Layoffs in Delhi and Jaipur were communicated to the staff on Monday, while in Gurgaon employees were notified on Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020. According to an […]

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CGI plans to hire 15,000 over the next 5 years
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CGI plans to hire 15,000 over the next 5 years

Canadian IT and business consulting services firms, CGI plans to hire nearly 15,000 people in India over the next four to five years. CGI offers an extensive global delivery network made up of numerous centres of excellence strategically located around the world to meet the needs of our clients. In India, there are over 15,000 […]

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Budget 2020- likely to lower the tax rates for middle-income taxpayers
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Budget 2020- likely to lower the tax rates for middle-income taxpayers

2019 has been a year when the economy went through various phases of economic swings and by now it has been accepted that there is a slowdown in the economy. The run-up to the budget has always been full of expectation and excitement. But this time around, the Budget 2020 has grabbed a lot more […]

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Wipro doubles campus hiring this year
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Wipro doubles campus hiring this year

Wipro has doubled its campus hiring in FY20 as compared to the FY19, and it will continue this momentum, said Saurabh Govil, Chief Human Resources Officer, Wipro. Our localization journey in the US started three years ago. We built a local campus hiring plan in the US, added Saurabh Govil without telling the exact number of […]

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10% of working women face sexual harassment at the workplace: Report
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10% of working women face sexual harassment at the workplace: Report

According to a Hindustan Times report, A total of 10% of working women face sexual harassment at the workplace; 37.14% of women in India are facing issues related to their health; while 44.8% of women are employed, according to the ‘Status of Women in India report’. Maneesha Kothekar, project director of the report said, “Through […]

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Amazon fires many employees for leaking customer data
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Amazon fires many employees for leaking customer data

Amazon recently fired many employees that were involved in leaking customer email addresses and phone numbers to an unspecified third party. It is the second time, this week the technology giant acknowledged some workers had improperly accessed customer data. “We are writing to let you know that your email address and phone number were disclosed […]

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Emcure’s President- HR, Prashant Parashar joins CleverTap as CHRO
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Emcure’s President- HR, Prashant Parashar joins CleverTap as CHRO

Former President, Global Human Resources of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Limited, Prashant Parashar joins CleverTap as Chief Human Resources Officer. His appointment is effective from January 2020. CleverTap is a SaaS-based customer lifecycle management and mobile marketing company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It provides mobile app analytics and user engagement products to more than 8000 companies. Prashant is […]

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Oyo lays off around 1,800 employees across India and China
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Oyo lays off around 1,800 employees across India and China

According to a report in Bloomberg, SoftBank-backed Oyo Hotels is in the process of handing out pink slips to thousands of employees in India and China. The company has let go of 5 percent of its 12,000 employees in China due to non-performance. This amounts to around 600 employees in the Chinese unit. Meanwhile, in India, Oyo is […]

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Walmart announces the layoffs of top executives across divisions
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Walmart announces the layoffs of top executives across divisions

Walmart India is in the process of sacking around a third of its top executives based at local headquarters in Gurgaon. According to a report in The Economic Times, the company has announced the layoffs of more than 100 senior executives including vice presidents across sourcing, agri-business and the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) divisions. And […]

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