Pandemic: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Jul 2020

Coronavirus

The role of HR Analytics in New Normal

Jul 1, 2020

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 i...

Human Resources

Jun 26, 2020

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

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

Top IT Companies Observations on Productivity in Work From Home Setting Due to ...

Survey & Report

Jun 22, 2020

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

Air India offers Work for Days a Week at Pay

Air India on Friday introduced a shorter working week scheme under which its permanent...

Coronavirus

Jun 20, 2020

Air India offers Work for Days a Week at Pay

Jobs

Tata Motors to shed 1,100 jobs at Jaguar Land Rover

Tata Motors Ltd expects to shed about 1,100 temporary jobs at Jaguar Land Rover after it raised the cost-cutting target at its luxury unit by 1 billion pounds ($1.26 billion) to ride out the disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Tata Motors expects to save 5 billion pounds in costs by March 2021 at its […]

Jun 16, 2020

Coronavirus

JCB India has laid off 400 permanent employees

According to the ET report, JCB India, India’s largest construction equipment major has laid off almost 400 permanent employees as part of its rationalization of workforce citing falling business volumes as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. The company said in a statement, “The retrenchment includes 80 to 90 persons ranging from a DGM till Vice […]

Jun 12, 2020

Coronavirus

Consulting firms defer salaries and promotions, Partners take pay cuts

Consulting firms Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, EY defer salaries and promotions, Partners take pay cuts The Indian arms of the four large consulting and auditing firms, PwC India, Deloitte India, KPMG, and EY India have all decided to defer their employee appraisal cycles, which includes deferring promotions and bonuses, because of the COVID pandemic- CNBC reports. […]

Jun 12, 2020

Psychology & NPL

Mental Health & Emotions Management in Times of Crisis

For everyone alive right now, COVID -19 pandemic will be the most defining event of our lives. Time will come to be defined as Before COVID and After COVID. This pandemic will change our thought processes and emotions forever. Earlier we used to feel fear of seeing a gunman or a terrorist. Now an innocuous […]

Jun 9, 2020

Industry

TCG Lifesciences releases full annual bonus to employees, plans to hire more

TCG Lifesciences, leading contract research and manufacturing services company, plans to increase its workforce by 15 percent in the current fiscal and has released a full annual bonus to its employees to boost their morale in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, an official said on Monday. The company, promoted by Purnendu Chatterjee Group, has […]

Jun 9, 2020

Coronavirus

Iffco Tokio hires 400 in lockdown, given annual increment

IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance hires 400 during the lockdown and rolled out annual increments Iffco Tokio General Insurance has on-boarded 400 staff between March and May during the lockdown period. The hiring of some of the employees was planned in the first quarter but the lockdown shifted its plans. The company has completed the process over […]

Jun 5, 2020

Coronavirus

Renault India gives 15% hike & promotions despite crisis

Despite the lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic, French car manufacturer, Renault India is giving a pay hike of 15% to its employees and promotions for the fiscal year 2021. The company is giving the pay hike to 250 employees and promotions to over 30 executives, with effect from August 2020. The salary hike of Renault […]

Jun 5, 2020

Coronavirus

An employee at Maruti plant tests positive for Covid-19

An employee at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a company spokesperson. The company is also looking at “a possibility of a second case” of infection at the facility but has ruled out any impact on the business part due to the situation. The country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India […]

May 24, 2020

Coronavirus

Ola to layoff 1,400 employees due to COVID-19 pandemic

Ola has announced the plan to conduct a mass lay-off, affecting around 1,400 of its employees The decision comes in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in lockdowns that have drastically affected the whole cab-aggregation business of the company. In a company blog post written by the CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, the co-founder of Ola Cabs, made it […]

May 20, 2020

Coronavirus

Reset L&D strategy in times of the crisis

What’s the one common thing between successful businesses of all shapes and sizes, across geographies and industries? A continuous learning culture, amongst other things. And driving this culture is a bunch of committed individuals (L&D or HR) and robust systems that work day-in and day-out to ensure that employees have instant access to learning – […]

May 15, 2020

Industrial Relations

Pune Labour Office has issued notice to Tech Mahindra

Tech Mahindra gets labour department notice over alleged complaints of salary cuts Pune’s Labour Office has issued a notice to Tech Mahindra Ltd. on a complaint that the IT services firm had reduced the salaries of its employees to maintain “profitability” amid the Covid-19 pandemic. A similar notice was issued earlier this month to Wipro […]

May 11, 2020

Coronavirus

New Leadership Capabilities to Anchor – Volatile Moments

We live in the age of the ‘Black-Swans’. All organizations are vulnerable to events that are neither predictable nor are these events within their realms of control. The difference between the world we experienced and the world we anticipate to live in the future is contrasted by the presence of the ‘black swan’ events. ‘Black […]

May 11, 2020