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Updated on: Aug 2020

Interview

WFH needs a complete rewiring of mindsets at both ends- Prabir Jha

Aug 25, 2020

Tech Mahindra launches Mhealthy to screen staff at work

Tech Mahindra launches Mhealthy AI and ML-based App to enable workforce and community ...

Coronavirus

Aug 4, 2020

Tech Mahindra launches Mhealthy to screen staff at work

PwC staff encouraged to return to work on a voluntary basis

PwC staff encouraged to return to work on a voluntary basis PwC staff have been encouraged to return...

Coronavirus

Aug 2, 2020

PwC staff encouraged to return to work on a voluntary basis

Accenture wants No late calls and fewer Friday meetings

Accenture wants its employees less stressed, announces No late calls and fewer Friday meetings As th...

Coronavirus

Jul 1, 2020

Accenture wants No late calls and fewer Friday meetings

Coronavirus

WFH… A Leapfrog into Future

What has long believed to be the future of work as per theories has abruptly become a reality, thanks to something called COVID–19. This word has been creating a sense of dread, anxiety, fear: all sorts of negative feelings in the hearts and minds of people all over the globe. A mysterious virus that has […]

Jun 11, 2020

Culture & Behaviour

Reinvent the way we work to shine amidst the Crisis

“Never let a good crisis go to waste” – Winston Churchill The last few weeks have been surreal. It has been over 8 weeks since the lockdown and I witnessed something historic – almost the entire workforce working out of our best-in-class campuses have seamlessly moved to their own backyard and continued to be purposeful […]

Jun 10, 2020

Future of Work

Managing Workplace Disruptions Post COVID-19

Amidst industrial revolution 4.0, SMAC, an acronym for Social, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud alongside Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning, Augmented Reality (AR), and Chatbots were already disrupting the way we conduct our business and presented the industry with exciting possibilities of growth that is non-linear and also an […]

Jun 8, 2020

Coronavirus

Major Paradigm Shift in Workplace Culture Post COVID-19

The world around us has changed drastically with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting almost every aspect of our lives. It has changed the way we shop, dine, party, learn, communicate, exercise, the list is endless. A major paradigm shift has been in the way we work. Cushman & Wakefield have recently come up with a new design […]

Jun 5, 2020

Industry

TCS to build two new facilities in Pune and Noida, expected to accommodate over 50,000 employees

Despite announcing last month that it would let 75% of its employees work from home by 2025, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is seeking approval to develop two new IT parks of five million sqft as well as lease an additional one million sqft. IT major TCS is planning to set up an […]

May 15, 2020

Learning & Development

New Rules of eLearning Strategy at the Workplace

One thing is pretty clear by now. The world will never be the same again after 2020. It will now be recalibrated in the new temporal zones BC (Before COVID-19) and AC (After COVID-19). And this includes the corporate and business environments, especially since a large part of how we work and function will depend […]

May 13, 2020

Coronavirus

Workplace Trends after COVID-19 is Over

The coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic has affected every workplace in the country in one way or another. As governments make significant interventions in response to the coronavirus, businesses are rapidly adjusting to the changing needs of their people, their customers, and suppliers. Some employers have closed their doors temporarily—and some permanently. Others have asked their employees to […]

May 4, 2020

Coronavirus

POST COVID-19: 75% TCS employees to work from home

According to a report published in Business Today, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will ask 75 percent of its 4.48 lakh employees to work from home by 2025. The new secure borderless workspaces (SBWS) model has improved the company’s velocity by 25%. It means that TCS could shift to WHM as a ‘New-Normal’ once lockdown opens. […]

Apr 25, 2020

Coronavirus

LD2: List of what will remain open across India from April 20

The Government has released a list of the services that will remain functional across the country from April 20. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has shared the list of what will remain open all over India effective April 20. Here is a list of what will remain open all over India with effect from 20th […]

Apr 19, 2020

Coronavirus

Twitter: HR Veterans on COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus global pandemic has affected every workplace, in one way or another. The employers have closed their doors temporarily due to lockdown and asked their employees to work from home, Companies have given extra paid or special paid leave or unpaid leave to employees with health concerns. While the worst of the coronavirus outbreak will […]

Apr 14, 2020

Blogosphere

Three key ideas on Tough Times: A perspective from CHRO

What a last couple of weeks it has been! The Covid-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in terms of the scale of the disruption to our normal activities. In India, we are in the middle of a lockdown that has seen organizations accelerate ‘work from home’ on a scale we didn’t think possible some time back. […]

Apr 4, 2020