According to media reports, Online classifieds platform Quikr has laid off around 1,500-2,000 people from various verticals in the last one and a half months. It reportedly laid off 1,200 employees in Bengaluru and 138 in Pune. The layoffs are an outcome of an alleged scam where employees faked business transactions to earn crores in commission
Inc42 reports that the...
We are just a few days away from welcoming 2020 and what better time to think of human resource trends for the coming year than now! The year 2019 in India can best be termed as a year of comfort; by that, I mean having half your body in deep-freezer and rest of it on a hot frying pan...
I like to glance around
the corner to see what might be ahead, below are the trends I foresee for HR in
2020.
Context is changing…
Someone said, “Content is king, but context is the kingdom.”The HR profession must appreciate, anticipate, and adapt to changing economic, political, social, and technological contexts. In particular, HR helps deliver the digital business agenda and how...
Country’s two largest private sector banks Kotak Mahindra and Axis said they will hire a total of about 5,000 fresh graduates, with a greater emphasis on tech talent. Design skills, earlier not a focus area for banks, are now in demand too.
Kotak Mahindra Bank said it would hire around 2,600 fresh graduates this year. The group’s Chief Human Resource...
Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M) announced a fresh reshuffle of its leadership team as the utility vehicle and tractor maker complies with the new rules of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and as senior managers attain superannuation.
Group Corporate Office (GCO):
S. Durgashankar will have an enhanced role as Group Controller of Finance and Accounts. He will work...
The last decade has transformed work and more importantly, lives at work. Macroeconomic shifts and localization trends have joined forces with technological disruption thus redrawing boundaries and notions of corporate work life. What seemed the norm yesterday has now got cast aside as dated. Given this ever-changing milieu of patterns, behaviors and fluid evolution, making and meaning sense has...
Manish Kumar joins Ziqitza Healthcare Limited as Chief Human Resource Officer.
Ziqitza Health Care Limited (ZHL) is one of the largest Ambulance service providers in Asia and has been a pioneer in the Emergency Medical Response Services and Patient Transport Services in India since 2005. ZHL was set up by a group of young professionals who, after their...
According to ET reports, Techies with digital skills will be the most sought-after professionals in 2020. There are currently 60,000-odd vacancies for new-age technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics.
"Recruiters say candidates can expect fat hikes of 35-60% upon switching jobs, with the number going up to 100% for those with data science and ML chops. Demand...
The UP Government has cleared the land possession disputes for PepsiCo’s new plant in the Mathura district, the company will invest more than Rs 500 crore in the proposed plant at Kosi, Mathura through FDI route and create nearly 1,500 direct and indirect jobs.
Earlier, UPSIDC had allotted 36 acres of land to PepsiCo but local farmers had been agitating owing to...
There is a classic dichotomy for you to reflect upon: In a VUCA business environment, organizations need more from their employees than ever. But the same forces shaking businesses are also overwhelming employees, driving up their fear, and compromising their capacity. It’s no wonder that so many organizations are focused on how to build a culture of higher performance....