Meesho lays off over 150 employees from grocery business as it restructures vertical“As we look to boost efficiencies in the light of the integration, a small number of full-time roles and certain third-party positions on six-month contracts at Meesho Superstore were reassessed to remove redundancies with the core business,” the company said in a blog post.
Read Sundar Pichai's email to Google employees on coming back to officeInternet search giant Google has announced that it is delaying the back to office date for employees until January 10, 2022. This was announced by company’s CEO Sundar Pichai in an email to the employees. Pichai cited that the delay in the deadline has been made keeping in mind how variable the conditions are with the Covid-19 across the world right now. Due to this, the global voluntary return-to-office policy by Google has been extended to January 10, 2022.
Tech jobs: Why everyone wants to be a product managerA product manager's role doesn’t hinge on technical skills like coding, yet it is the most hyped in the tech startup space in India at the moment. It is also, however, riddled with myths. We try to dissect the hype.
Google employees to know how their pay may change if they move officesInternet search giant Google has been among those companies that never made the work-from-home option permanent, unlike Twitter and Facebook that had given the employees the work-from-home option “forever.” Now, the company has rolled out a new tool — called Work Location Tool — for its employees to request for permanent remote workers or asking for any change in office location.
Tech hiring rebounds in May; overall job market still weak, says reportThere was a 2 per cent decline in the overall number of new job posts in May on the SCIKEY Market Network, a job site, including in sectors like banking with a dip of 12 per cent, retail 16 per cent and FMCG 12 per cent, while there was a growth of 5 per cent in the insurance sector.
Wipro may have some 'good news' for its junior staff IT services major Wipro on Friday said it will give wage hikes to junior employees with effect from September 1, 2021. As announced earlier, all eligible employees above band C1 (managers and above) will receive pay hikes effective June 1, it added.
Top 5 Indian IT firms to add over 96,000 jobs: NasscomTCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra are planning to add over 96,000 employees, Nasscom says, reacting to reports that said 3 million IT jobs would be lost by 2022 due to automation.
Calming booths, meditation: Amazon has a plan for 'exhausted' employeesBeing one of the biggest companies in the world means that Amazon is also one of the most sought after among professionals. Yet, there have been reports that it’s not the easiest places to work and workers have often complained over working conditions — especially those who work in warehouses. Amazon clearly wants to counter that narrative and wants to become — in the company’s own words — the “Earth’s Safest Place to Work”.
After delay, these IT companies are giving double incrementMany IT companies are giving a second round of salary increases and promotions within months of the previous one. Last year’s salary increment had initially been deferred on account of the pandemic and business downturn. But as business picked up in the second half of the year, increments were given with effect from late last calendar year or early this year. Now, with intense competition for talent, companies are rewarding employees again.
BSNL directed to pay wages to contract workers by 15th of every monthWithin the said time, if the BSNL has not disbursed the wage or salary, that amount would carry an interest of 6 per cent per annum for any such belated payment, Justice R Suresh Kumar said in a recent order.
IT jobs back in demand as companies go digitalThe Top 5 IT companies in India, including TCS, Infosys and Wipro, will hire over a lakh people this year to execute projects for clients looking at digital transformations.
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions to hire 2,500 people in India this year"Last year, we witnessed unprecedented business momentum at RBEI in India, in what was a difficult year for us all. This was owing to the phenomenal passion and cohesion of our teams, who were driven to build some of the industry's best technology solutions for our clients," RBEI President and Managing Director Dattatri Salagame told .