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Updated on: Dec 2022
PepsiCo to layoff hundreds of staff at headquarters
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PepsiCo to layoff hundreds of staff at headquarters

Dec 8, 2022

Managing Redundancy in Organizations The HR Way

The year and that too especially the second half of it has witnessed a series of employee termi...

Talent Management
Dec 7, 2022
Managing Redundancy in Organizations The HR Way

Amazon is on the urge of the biggest layoff including top executives

Amazon is on the urge of the biggest layoff including top executives in the company since it was fou...

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Dec 6, 2022
Amazon is on the urge of the biggest layoff including top executives

OYO is in the process of laying off employees

The tech-based Indian multinational Oyo Hotels and Homes Pvt. Ltd has announced a huge business rest...

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Dec 5, 2022
OYO is in the process of laying off employees
Hiring platform Hirect sacked 40% of the workforce
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Hiring platform Hirect sacked 40% of the workforce

A leading job portal in India, Hirect has sacked nearly 200 people which is 40 percent of the total workforce. Hirect laid off these employees due to organizational restructuring and a strategic change in its business model. The company has become a victim of the slowdown in new hiring. The Co-founder and CEO of Hirect Raj […]

Nov 29, 2022
US firm laid off nearly 2,700 people when they were ‘asleep’
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US firm laid off nearly 2,700 people when they were ‘asleep’

A leader in the furniture industry and one of the largest furniture producers in the United States, United Furniture Industries has laid off approximately 2,700 workers. Most of the sacked employees from the company live in northeast Mississippi. The laid-offs came just days before the Thanksgiving holiday. However, The company sent a memo via email and […]

Nov 28, 2022
How to prepare for layoffs?
Economic Slowdown

How to prepare for layoffs?

The current global economic environment is gloomy. Wherever you look the conversations are centred around slowing growth, recession, high inflation, unemployment, and most importantly large-scale layoffs. These things are not new. Businesses go through economic cycles and there are cycles when going gets tough for them. When the going gets tough, well- run businesses are […]

Nov 28, 2022
Railways fired one ‘non-performer or corrupt official’ every 03 days
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Railways fired one ‘non-performer or corrupt official’ every 03 days

According to PTI, the Railways has weeded out one “non-performer or corrupt official” every three days in the past 16 months, officials said. Two senior-grade officers were sacked on Wednesday, sources said. Around 139 officials from the Indian Railways have been asked for Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS). The Indian Railway has agreed on a salary […]

Nov 26, 2022
Amazon tells labour ministry: No one was fired, resignations were voluntary
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Amazon tells labour ministry: No one was fired, resignations were voluntary

E-commerce giant Amazon which was summoned by labour ministry to appear on Tuesday said that the company has not fired any employee, and resignations were voluntary who opted for its separation program on their own by accepting a severance package. Amazon representatives appeared before the deputy chief labour commissioner of the union labour ministry in Bengaluru on […]

Nov 25, 2022
India’s labour ministry sends notice to Amazon; hearing on Nov23
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India’s labour ministry sends notice to Amazon; hearing on Nov23

Labour Ministry of India has sent a notice to Amazon concerning a complaint filed by Nascent IT employees senate Amazon’s public policy manager asked to attend a hearing on Nov 23.   A Anjanappa, the deputy chief labour commissioner has summoned the company regarding the Voluntary Separation Program (VSP) and directed it to attend this […]

Nov 23, 2022
HP to cut at least 4,000-6000 jobs
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HP to cut at least 4,000-6000 jobs

An American multinational information technology company, HP is planning to lay off nearly 4000 to 6,000 employees. This layoff is nearly around 12 percent of the company’s global workforce. HP currently employs nearly 50,000 people as of December 2021. The company has planned this layoff up till the end of fiscal 2025. “We had a […]

Nov 23, 2022
Google plans to fire 10,000 poor performing employees
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Google plans to fire 10,000 poor performing employees

An American multinational technology company, Google is planning to fire nearly 10,000 employees. The layoffs will be on the grounds of ‘poor performance’. The layoffs are nearly 6% of the total workforce. Google will use a ranking system and the lowest-ranked employees are expected to be fired from the company. Since 2017 the company has […]

Nov 22, 2022
Amazon layoffs are illegal, NITES says to labour minister
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Amazon layoffs are illegal, NITES says to labour minister

The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) has approached the Labour Ministry concerning the layoff of Indian employees at amazon. “The law of the land is above Amazon policies,” Harpreet Singh Saluja, President, NITES said in a mail. “As per the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act the employer cannot, without prior permission from the […]

Nov 21, 2022
Zomato laying off nearly 3% of staff due to cost-cutting
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Zomato laying off nearly 3% of staff due to cost-cutting

Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company, Zomato has confirmed that the company is laying off under 3 percent of its staff across the organization. The company said that the layoffs are based on regular performance. Earlier, Zomato Ltd confirmed on Friday that its co-founder, Mohit Gupta has resigned from the company. Mohit resigned after about […]

Nov 19, 2022
Cisco to lay off over 4,000 employees
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Cisco to lay off over 4,000 employees

An American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation, Cisco will be laying off more than 4,000 employees. According to a report in Silicon Valley Business Journal, the company is laying off nearly 5 percent of its workforce. The company has described this as a “rebalancing” act while “rightsizing certain businesses.” Cisco Chief Financial Officer Scott Herren […]

Nov 19, 2022
#RIPTwitter Trends on Twitter amid reports of mass resignations
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#RIPTwitter Trends on Twitter amid reports of mass resignations

Twitter employees on Friday started a ‘#RIPTwitter’ trend as hundreds of the company’s employees are estimated to be leaving the company. The hashtag “RIPTwitter” started trending on Twitter where users shared hilarious memes and posts while highlighting that the platform might soon shut down. Elon Musk issued employees an ultimatum saying that stay with the […]

Nov 18, 2022