COVID-19: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

Latest COVID-19 HR Trends, workforce insights, and expert analysis. Stay updated with the latest news on COVID-19.

Updated on: Jul 2020

Culture & Behaviour

Accelerating Digital Culture in Times of COVID- Crisis

Jul 21, 2020

HUL shuts down Haridwar plant, employees test positive

Hindustan Unilever Limited HUL shuts down Haridwar plant after many employees test positive for co...

Industry

Jul 21, 2020

HUL shuts down Haridwar plant, employees test positive

Indeed has told employees to work from home until Jul

Indeed has told thousands of its employees to work from home until July Indeed, an Austin-based...

Coronavirus

Jul 20, 2020

Indeed has told employees to work from home until Jul

Virtual Team Building Activities to Engage Remote Workers

Virtual Team Building Activities to Engage Remote Workers in New Normal Work from home, Remote worki...

Culture & Behaviour

Jul 16, 2020

Virtual Team Building Activities to Engage Remote Workers

Coronavirus

SBI to roll out Work-From-Anywhere policy soon

SBI to roll out Work-From-Anywhere policy soon for its employees, hopes to save Rs 1,000 crore India’s largest public-sector Bank SBI plans to roll out work-from-anywhere infra and expects to save Rs 1,000 crore from this measure. “Following global best practices, SBI will institute work from anywhere infrastructure to facilitate work from any location…taking care […]

Jul 16, 2020

Jobs

Wipro hired 7,000 in the last Q1, It will continue to hire in Q2

After last quarter’s massive dip, Wipro adds 7,000 employees with plans to continue hiring in the coming Quarters IT major Wipro has hired 7,000 people globally in Q1, between April -June 2020. the company will keep hiring continue in coming quarters as well depending on demand, said Saurabh Govil, Chief Human Resources Officer at Wipro […]

Jul 15, 2020

Jobs

Amazon India Launches Skill Development Programme

Amazon India launches skill development programme for 1,000 apprentices Amazon India on Tuesday said it has launched a skilling programme under the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) across its warehouses in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. The initiative has been launched with a pilot program for 1,000 apprentices, and will be scaled further, Amazon India said […]

Jul 15, 2020

Coronavirus

Chubb launches Work from Home Insurance for apac region

Chubb launches Work from Home Insurance for the Asia Pacific Region SINGAPORE – Chubb announced today the launch of Work from Home (WFH) Insurance, a market-first in Asia Pacific. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional office environment has increasingly become the home, as work from home becomes the new normal. As businesses […]

Jul 14, 2020

Jobs

Government launches ASEEM portal to help skilled people

Government launches ASEEM portal to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship on Friday launched Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer Mapping (ASEEM) portal to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities. Features of ASEEM The portal connects the workers and the organizations and reduces the gap between the demand and […]

Jul 14, 2020

Design Thinking

A crisis by default but possibilities by design thinking in HR

A COVID-19 crisis by default but possibilities by design thinking in Human Resources Amidst jokes about the Coronavirus actually going viral and the unlocking gradually showing its face, we are learning to come to terms with the effects of the pandemic. While HR teams are exploring ways of aligning policies to the ‘New Normal’, there […]

Jul 14, 2020

Industry

Wipro has no layoff plans due to pandemic: Rishad Premji

Wipro has no layoff plans due to pandemic impact on business: Wipro Chairman, Rishad Premji While addressing the 74th annual general meeting (AGM) IT major, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji said, “So far, we have not laid off any employee and has no plans to retrench employees due to the Covid-19 pandemic impact on business.” However, the company is driving […]

Jul 13, 2020

Compensation & Benefits

Top 6 Allowances & Benefits for Work from Home Staff

Top 6 Allowances & Benefits for Work from Home Employees especially in times of COVID-19 Crisis Our world, a couple of months back, was so different from what it is now. COVID-19 has turned everything upside down, stirred things up, and given us a new normal with no option but to come to terms with it. People, […]

Jul 13, 2020

Industry

TCS to recruit 40,000 freshers soon through campus hiring

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to recruit 40,000 freshers soon through campus hiring According to a recent report by Zee Business, India’s largest IT company will recruit 40,000 freshers soon through campus hiring. Milind Lakkad, EVP and Global Head – Human Resources at TCS said, “As for as hiring is concerned, we haven’t added people in […]

Jul 12, 2020

Industry

Zomato re-instated salary cuts, paying back all deductions

Online Food delivery app Zomato re-instated salary cuts, paying back all deductions Online Food delivery app Zomato said, We have re-instated any salary cuts that we rolled out to our employees since April. In fact, we are paying back all deductions made to people who faced mandatory salary cuts at Zomato. 3 – We have […]

Jul 11, 2020

Technology

Successful Digital HR Strategy for a Sustainable Transformation

Creating a Successful Digital HR Strategy for a Sustainable Transformation The global COVID-19 pandemic has challenged companies to manage their enterprises in new ways. Organizations are not only experiencing enormous scope changes to their daily business but also a restructuring of the economic order. Many organizations are now forced to transform their business, organization, and […]

Jul 10, 2020

Labour Law

Govt to pay EPF employees and employers share till Aug 20

Government to pay EPF contributions (entire 24%) of employees and employers till Aug 2020 PTI | The Union Cabinet on 8 July, Wednesday approved a proposal to extend the scheme for the payment of employers and employees’ PF contributions for three months until August 2020. Earlier, in May this year finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had […]

Jul 9, 2020