Pandemic: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Jul 2020

Labour Law

EPF contributions will be deducted at old rates from Aug

Jul 30, 2020

Tata Technologies puts employees on Bench till Dec

Tata Technologies puts less than employees on the bench due to COVID- impact on business A glo...

Coronavirus

Jul 25, 2020

Tata Technologies puts employees on Bench till Dec

MakeMyTrip restores salaries as business starts to revive

MakeMyTrip restores salaries as business starts to revive gradually MakeMyTrip, a leading online tra...

Jobs

Jul 24, 2020

MakeMyTrip restores salaries as business starts to revive

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

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

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

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

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

Coronavirus

Capgemini rolls out wage hikes and promotions w.e.f July 1

Capgemini India rolls out wage hikes and promotions effective 01 July 2020 Admit the COVID-19 pandemic when most companies in India have withheld salary hikes and effected pay cuts, Capgemini has rolled out wage hikes and promotions for all its employees in India. The quantum of hikes is said to be in high single digits. In April, the […]

Jul 8, 2020

Coronavirus

COVID-19: ICICI Bank to reward 80k of its frontline staff

ICICI Bank to give 80k employees up to 8% pay hike for work amid COVID-19 According to a PTI report, The country’s second-largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has decided to reward over 80,000 of its frontline employees with a salary hike of up to 8 percent These employees form over 80 percent of its overall workforce […]

Jul 8, 2020

Culture & Behaviour

Career Wellbeing While Work From Home, a new normal

Career Wellbeing While Work From Home, a new normal during COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown have proved to be disruptive for businesses across industries in India and elsewhere. Data shows that urban unemployment has risen 30.9% and the overall unemployment rate is at 23.4%. The few weeks of lockdown has […]

Jul 3, 2020

Coronavirus

Accenture cuts up to 900 jobs as Covid-19 hits demand

Accenture cuts up to 900 jobs in UK as Covid-19 pandemic hits demand Consulting firm Accenture is cutting up to 900 jobs, or 8% of its UK workforce, as the coronavirus pandemic prompted a sharp slump in demand for its advisory work. Demand for consultants has dropped during the financial downturn caused by the pandemic, […]

Jul 3, 2020

Coronavirus

Accenture wants “No late calls and fewer Friday meetings”

Accenture wants its employees less stressed, announces No late calls and fewer Friday meetings As the world in under lockdown and IT professionals are working from home, top IT services major Accenture feels that the employees are more stressed while being at home. According to a Bloomberg report, Accenture has asked people to end conference calls by around 5:30 […]

Jul 1, 2020

Coronavirus

The role of HR Analytics in New Normal

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a global health crisis of our time impacting severely our day to day life. With the industry growth rates projected to be the lowest in many years/decades, Business Continuity from a workforce management perspective will take precedence and HR teams will be required to track, measure, and pre-empt what can […]

Jul 1, 2020

Human Resources

Productivity & Efficiency has gone-up in WFH settings- CPO, ABD India

Exclusive Conversation with Biplob Banerjee, Chief People Officer, ABD India Ltd Biplob joined ABD in November 2018 and presently serves as Chief People Officer, leading human resource functions including talent acquisition and retention, learning and development, employee engagement, and welfare, rewards, recognition, compensation, and benefits. Biplob has over 25 years of experience in the fields […]

Jun 26, 2020

Survey & Report

TCS, Infosys, HCL, and Microsoft on Productivity in WFH

Top IT Companies’ Observations on “Productivity in Work From Home Setting” Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most IT companies have given permission for professionals to work from home. IT and Tech majors are keen on making work from home seamless, engaging, and developing trust between their employees in a remote working environment. The expectation from […]

Jun 22, 2020