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

Survey & Report

Hybrid Working is the New Collaboration Imperative Report

Jul 23, 2020

COVID- Impact Microsoft-owned LinkedIn cuts jobs

COVID- Impact Microsoft-owned LinkedIn cuts jobs as pandemic puts the brakes on corporate hir...

Coronavirus

Jul 22, 2020

COVID- Impact Microsoft-owned LinkedIn cuts jobs

HCL Tech to hire freshers from campuses this fiscal

HCL Technologies to hire freshers from campuses this fiscal year Indias rd Largest IT ...

Jobs

Jul 22, 2020

HCL Tech to hire freshers from campuses this fiscal

Accelerating Digital Culture in Times of COVID- Crisis

Accelerating Digital Culture in Times of COVID- Crisis One of the jokes which were making rounds d...

Culture & Behaviour

Jul 21, 2020

Accelerating Digital Culture in Times of COVID- Crisis

Industry

HUL shuts down Haridwar plant, employees test positive

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) shuts down Haridwar plant after many employees test positive for coronavirus Hindustan Unilever temporarily shuts down the Haridwar plant as many employees have tested positive for coronavirus. The company did not disclose the exact number but said that its employees had been diagnosed with the coronavirus. “We can confirm that several […]

Jul 21, 2020

Coronavirus

Indeed has told employees to work from home until Jul 2021

Indeed has told thousands of its employees to work from home until July 2021 Indeed, an Austin-based job search engine has told thousands of its employees that it won’t require them to go into any of its offices before July 2021. “The pandemic is still impacting many countries around the world and many states in […]

Jul 20, 2020

Culture & Behaviour

Virtual Team Building Activities to Engage Remote Workers

Virtual Team Building Activities to Engage Remote Workers in New Normal Work from home, Remote working, Virtual teams are not new things, but currently, working conditions are entirely different due to the COVID-19 crisis. The questions haunting me now are – how new leaders will assess and align their teams going forward? How will they […]

Jul 16, 2020

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