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Updated on: Mar 2023
Flipkarts Chief People Officer confirms no mass layoffs at Flipkart
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Flipkarts Chief People Officer confirms no mass layoffs at Flipkart

Mar 27, 2023

Amazon posted nearly openings for approved positions

According to Insider reports, Amazon team of the Web Services Department AWS had posted , ope...

Industry
Mar 24, 2023
Amazon posted nearly openings for approved positions

Layoffs a laid-off techie hangs himself in Chennai

Covid- changed the situation of working. There have been various companies that even overhired emp...

Industry
Mar 15, 2023
Layoffs a laid-off techie hangs himself in Chennai

Zerodha Nikhil Kamath advice for Indian students studying abroad amid mass layoffs

Zerodha Co-Founder Nikhil Kamath has shared his advice for Indian students studying abroad amid mass...

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Feb 22, 2023
Zerodha Nikhil Kamath advice for Indian students studying abroad amid mass layoffs
No Layoffs at TCS, instead will like to hire impacted people
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No Layoffs at TCS, instead will like to hire impacted people

On people losing jobs with startups, amid the layoff wave, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Chief Human Resources officer Milind Lakkad said that TCS will be looking to hire such impacted employees. Milind Lakkad told PTI, “We don’t do that (layoffs), we believe in grooming talent in the company…(there will be) no layoffs.” He explained the layoffs […]

Feb 20, 2023
IT Companies find new ways to spot fraud in video interviews
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IT Companies find new ways to spot fraud in video interviews

India’s top two IT Companies Cognizant India & Accenture in India laid off a few of their employees due to Failed Background Checks in 2022.  Cognizant India reported 6 percent involuntary attrition in the September ending quarter of FY22, which also includes the sacking of employees due to failed background checks. Accenture in India also fired a few […]

Feb 3, 2023
Woman sacked for being pregnant awarded Rs 15 Lakh compensation
Compensation

Woman sacked for being pregnant awarded Rs 15 Lakh compensation

During the period of pregnancy, many female employees lose their jobs. As per the recent Telegraph report, a 34-year-old woman, Charlotte Leitch had only recently joined Essex-based CIS services firm but only a couple of weeks later her employer fired her. She won compensation of nearly Rs. 15 lahks after she was fired for “being […]

Jan 3, 2023
65% Job seekers are depressed over Layoffs, unable to give 100%
Survey & Report

65% Job seekers are depressed over Layoffs, unable to give 100%

The current year has been the year of layoffs. As per the media reports, nearly 1 lakh employees lost their jobs in 2022. According to a survey by Indeed, about 65 percent of job seekers (more than 6 in 10) in India feel that the ongoing layoffs may hinder their willingness to go the extra […]

Dec 24, 2022
Fired by error, Twitter asks some laid-off workers to come back
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Fired by error, Twitter asks some laid-off workers to come back

The microblogging and social networking service, Twitter has sacked close to 3,700 people. Some of those who were laid off have been asked to return as they were fired by error. Others were let go before management realized that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Elon Musk envisions, the people […]

Nov 7, 2022
Twitter employee sleeping on office floor; Musk to cut 50% of jobs
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Twitter employee sleeping on office floor; Musk to cut 50% of jobs

A Viral picture shared by a Twitter employee shows his manager sleeping on the office floor at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters. The photo was taken after Elon Musk purchased Twitter. It was reported that the microblogging company, Twitter told its staff that the company has set tasks so that it can be seen who works hard in […]

Nov 3, 2022
An employee can be terminated for suppressing: Supreme Court
Labour Law

An employee can be terminated for suppressing: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Monday said that an employee can be terminated from the service for suppressing or giving false information concerning matters having a bearing on his fitness or suitability for the post. The top court laid down broad principles of law to be taken into account especially in the case of recruitment in police […]

Sep 29, 2022
MPL and Front Row lay off 100 and 145 employees respectively
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MPL and Front Row lay off 100 and 145 employees respectively

A major real-money stakes-based gaming operator, Mobile Premier League (MPL) has laid off 100 employees, or 10% of the workforce. The company has claimed that it has over 9 crore users on its platform and offers more than 60 online games such as Fantasy Cricket, Rummy, and Speed Chess with real cash prizes in paid […]

May 31, 2022
Healthtech startup MFine laid off over 500 people due to funding crunch
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Healthtech startup MFine laid off over 500 people due to funding crunch

The Bengaluru-based, healthtech startup, MFine has laid off 500 employees as the startup struggles to raise funds. According to media reports, the job cut accounts for about half the workforce. The company was hiring employees until last month and has about 1,000 employees. It laid-off employees across data science, engineering, and product departments. Employees were […]

May 23, 2022
Robinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees
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Robinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees

The U.S. financial services company Robinhood Markets Inc. declared that it would be laying off about 9% of its full-time employees by removing the duplicate jobs it had added when the company saw excitable growth during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev announced on Tuesday that the financial services company would lay off about 9% of its […]

Apr 28, 2022
Meesho lays off 150 employees from the grocery business
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Meesho lays off 150 employees from the grocery business

According to an ET report, e-commerce startup Meesho has laid off 150 people from its grocery business. The positions were axed after the company restructured and rebranded as Meesho Superstore from Farmiso earlier. Last week of this month, the company announced its plans to merge the grocery business with the main app, leading the talks of restructuring […]

Apr 13, 2022
Unacademy lays off 600 employees as part of a cost-cutting measure
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Unacademy lays off 600 employees as part of a cost-cutting measure

Edtech unicorn Unacademy, which recently launched an experience centre- Unacademy Store, has laid off nearly 600 employees, almost 10% of its workforce. The SoftBank-backed start-up employs over 6,000 people, and this firing is said to be a cost-cutting measure. Sources familiar with the development said nearly half of the employees fired were educators, and they were […]

Apr 8, 2022