Dialysis services provider NephroPlus to hire 2,000 clinical staff by FY21

The company foresees a huge demand for dialysis technicians in the country and has decided to increase the number of franchisees of its Enpi...

1.6 billion informal workers in danger of losing their jobs: International Labour Organization

Total working hours in the second quarter are expected to be 10.5% lower, equivalent to 305 million full-time jobs, than the last pre-crisis...

Business Correspondents: The neglected COVID warriors

To minimize the difficulties of the poor in nationwide lockdown, the government is giving cash to them through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)...

Workplaces won’t be sealed if Covid case is found: Officials

The district magistrate will act as per the advice of health experts, said another official. “But there are no instructions to seal the buil...

Virus takes a toll on blue collar staff; no pay for 12 crore

Jobs are also expected to nosedive in the remaining quarters of the year unless demand picks up by the festive season later this year, exper...

View: Millennials face second age of underemployment

There are many eulogies floating around for millennials these days. Now sandwiched between two economic calamities, we’ve racked up a lot of...

Job offers drying up for IITians this placement season

IITs are also reaching out to alumni (most of who are either startup founders or hold senior positions in India Inc) to help students get jo...

Outplacement service providers for layoffs, restructuring witnessing 30% rise in queries

Sectors like hospitality, aviation, retail, auto, engineering and manufacturing and BFSI are taking the lead right now in terms of queries, ...

Coronavirus impact: JLR to put about 20k employees in UK on furlough

The Tata Motors spokesperson said the British subsidiary was working towards an orderly return to production as soon as conditions permitted...

India Inc resets workspaces for life after Covid-19 lockdown

Businesses will redefine seating at offices as per social distancing norms, introduce shift-based work, go virtual with meetings, ramp up cl...

Adverse business impact of COVID-19 may drive companies to consider 'workforce optimisation': Survey

The survey titled, COVID-19 India Readiness Survey, noted that 19 per cent expect an adverse impact to last over a two-year period, while on...

No impact on placements even under prevailing circumstances: IIT Guwahati

The premier engineering institution said that no offers have been withdrawn. April 21, 2020 at 01:44PM

Indian professionals confident about future opportunities; tread cautiously in short-term: Survey

Indian professionals feel confident about long-term employment outlook, but are troubled with overarching concerns in the short-term regardi...

In Covid-19 times, 200,000 reasons for job market cheer

Some of the top employers are Amazon, Google, Tech Mahindra, Walmart Labs, VMWare, IBM, Capgemini, Deloitte, JPMorgan Chase, Flipkart, Byju’...

Amid cos rescinding internship offers, RIL keeps commitment, digitally onboards 84 summer interns

The coronavirus-led recession has dramatically changed job markets globally. Some companies are freezing all hiring while many firms that re...

Rupeek ends Aasaanjobs' HR contract

Rupeek, which operates an online marketplace for gold loans, terminated a human resource contract with Aasaanjobs, a recruitment marketplace...

IT's clicking: TCS seeks to be work from home bellwether

TCS’s chief operating officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam said the company believes that it does not “need to have more than 25% of workforce at...

Demand for contract workers may increase as companies prepare to ramp up production

Conglomerates such as Tata Steel, KEC International, Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra & Mahindra and Maruti Suzuki, among others, have mana...

Can’t sack staff: Companies get lawyers’ notice

Citing the prime minister's appeal to employers not to lay off any employee during the lockdown period, advocate Rajesh Inamdar and T C ...

Retailers, e-commerce, FMCG to hire migrant workers

Large retail chain, FMCG companies like Amul and Parle Products, e-commerce firms like Flipkart and Grofers, RPG Group and several temp staf...

6 ft of separation, masks must for work from office

From April 20, offices that are allowed to open will have to ensure every employee wears a face mask, no employee is closer than 6 feet from...

Coronavirus impact: Staffing body seeks job security for 33-lakh temporary workers

At least, four companies told ET that they were thinking of reducing their temporary staff by 40-60% this month to rein in costs amid uncert...

World economy working from home gets a glimpse of the virtual future

Virus lockdowns have seen millions lose their jobs as waiters, flight attendants, Pilates instructors and other service providers are shutte...

Talent demand down by 5% in March 2020 as firms grapple with Covid-19 setback: RecruiteX

The year 2020 started on a cheerful note for India Inc with overall talent demand registering 12% m-o-m growth in January. However, as the c...

Why companies need a role-based model in the Covid-19 paradigm

While companies grapple with survival and customer retention, even as stress and burnout, job insecurity, retrenchment, downsizing, emotiona...

Many large companies will honour hiring pledge

Among these are technology and IT firms including Google, Cisco, Capgemini, TCS, Accenture, Wipro and Cognizant. And others such as Hindusta...

Side-effects of lockdown: Anxiety levels up among employees as appraisals get delayed, job loss fears rise

Experts said there is high stress that the current crisis has brought upon employees as well as organisations, and with the lockdown not loo...

Extensive hiring freeze, delayed onboarding imminent: Survey

Three out of five companies looked at both hiring freeze and postponed candidate onboarding as a likelihood while 15% of companies considere...

15 million export jobs may succumb to Covid blows

The apparel exports sector estimates 2.5-3 million job losses because of order cancellations and buyers not clearing dues. The apparel secto...

Several recruiters commit to honoring offers to students amid job uncertainty due to coronovirus

Companies like Capgemini, HUL, ITC, Airtel, Aditya Birla group, Vedanta Group, Flipkart, Godrej, L’Oreal, KPMG, Dabur, Capgemini, Whirlpool,...

Double whammy: Coronavirus threat, fear of job loss

The toll-free helpline started by the central government to deal with psycho-social problems faced by people in the wake of Covid-19 crisis ...

Covid-19: Cos try to save jobs while struggling to meet payroll commitments

Buffeted by the turmoil unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic, a bunch of companies are trying to save jobs even while India Inc struggles to m...

Indian universities association joins hands with Jeevitam for online campus placements

Under this, digital campus placement will be run individually for each institute, thereby ensuring complete privacy and data confidentiality...

Bengaluru voted best city for IT professionals: Survey

Hyderabad and Pune secured the second and third spots, respectively, with 13 per cent and 11 per cent votes, it said. Delhi-NCR (20 per cent...

Minimal impact on students' job offers, summer internships amid COVID-19 crisis: IIM-C

Several recruiters made alternate arrangements to start the internship as per their original commitment via digital media, leveraging their ...

Grofers to hire 5,000 people over 2 weeks to ramp up capacity

The company has also partnered with resident welfare associations (RWAs) of over 100 societies across metros to make essentials available to...

Hiring activity declines 18 per cent in March: Naukri JobSpeak

The job market across cities registered a drop in hiring activity, the index revealed, adding that the decline was led by metros wherein Del...

India jobless rate swells above 23% amid coronavirus lockdown, survey shows

There was a significant fall in jobs and there is a simultaneous significant rise in unemployment in March 2020, according to CMIE, whose us...

COVID-19 impact: Pay delays leave freelancers in the cold

Freelancers are facing payment delays in view of the Covid-19 outbreak induced lockdown. While domestic payments have been delayed to 24 day...

PMKVY 3.0 delay holds up new enrolments

Fresh enrolments under the country's flagship skills training plan have halted in the absence of a plan to switch over from the Pradhan...

Pay cuts, job losses may lead to defaults on unsecured loans

Banks have offered customers a moratorium on payment of loan instalments for three months starting March. However, customers will have to pa...

Only a few IT companies like, Wipro, Accenture & Tech Mahindra honour job offers

Accenture is one of the largest employers in the IT sector, hiring an average of about 2,500 people every month in India in the last one yea...

HRD Min appeals to companies not to withdraw job offers made in campus placements

HRD Ministry appealed to companies to not withdraw any job offers made to students in campus placements due to economic issues by the corona...

India under lockdown: Job offers in hand, IIM & IIT grads stare at hazy future

Placement cells across top IITs and IIMs that ET spoke to said they are apprehensive that fallout could include postponement of joining date...

Lockdown would have deeper impact, 52% CEOs foresee job losses: CII Snap Poll

A majority of the firms engaging in production of essential products and supply of ancillary goods are facing constrained operations during ...

Govt reserves jobs in J&K for domiciles; amends Apr 1 order after angry reax

"Any person who fulfils the following conditions shall be a domicile of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the purposes of ap...

COVID-19: Biggbasket to hire 10,000 people for warehouses, delivery

E-commerce companies have been struggling to deliver orders after the 21-day lockdown, imposed to contain the spread of the deadly coronavir...

Work-from-home going to stay, even after Covid-19 scare is over

HR heads see it as a win-win solution helping employees save on commute time and cos to cut establishment cost, raising productivity. HR hea...

LinkedIn offers free job postings to accelerate hiring for critical roles to fight COVID-19

Besides, LinkedIn has expanded its 'Recruiting For Good' programme to deploy its own team of recruiters to help source and screen ta...

Government looking to amend rules for availing unemployment benefit under ESIC

Proposed changes could include providing unemployment benefits of up to 50% of the last drawn salary for three months as against 25% of the ...