Data in hand, Bihar moves to create jobs
The Bihar government has tasked at least twelve departments to explore jobs for migrant workers. May 28, 2020 at 07:33AM
Amid paycuts and layoffs, some companies chose to shield staff during the Covid storm
Compensation experts said while companies across the board are taking decisions based on business realities, the concern they display during...
Covid impact: Contract employees first in line of fire
Thousands of contract employees have been asked to go as companies in finance, insurance, retail — including ecommerce — and fast-moving con...
Some think out of the box, hire talent as others shed
Content platform Pratilipi, online gaming startup Dream11, logistics company Delhivery, API manager Postman and Software as a Service firm W...
IT brings new-age tools to the class to train freshers
Due to the ongoing lockdown, companies have not been able to train freshers at their sprawling techcampuses using traditional methods. Inste...
Healthcare, delivery may save the day for temp staffing companies
“The drop is, however, not going to be significant because some of the sectors that we operate in are resilient,” Quess chairman Ajit Isaac ...
Covid, job fears take heavy toll on cooped-up professionals
Fear of the coronavirus infection and death, as well as anxiety over the economic uncertainty and possibility of job loss are the main likel...
Skilled NRI returnees’ database planned
The Centre, through the skill ministry's National Skill Development Corporation, started the work of creating a database of skilled work...
After layoffs, Uber recalls B-school job offers
While Uber is the most high-profile recruiter to have revoked final placement offers so far, B-schools have also been seeing offers being wi...
Laid off workers get priority on online job portals
Naukri’s Step-Up initiative, launched around two weeks back, tracks companies and industries that are currently hiring along with active job...
View: Many things about jobs could change in the post-lockdown era
During this entire time of working from home, their lives have been shaken up in one way or another. Professionals would have figured out wh...
In times of Covid, diamond jobs are not forever
After the lockdown was imposed, imports of rough stones dried up, and nearly 70% of workers left for their hometowns in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh...
Amid vast unemployment, India's biggest job creator short of labour
The challenge of retaining staff despite 12.2 crore people losing their jobs in India last month shows how difficult it will be for Modi to ...
Nine in 10 employees stressed about returning to office post lockdown: Survey
As India Inc prepares for offices to open post the lockdown, the survey assesses the anxiety level of employees and shows a strong desire to...
Most employers keen to retain existing workforce amid COVID-19 crisis, says survey
According to staffing company Genius Consultants '9th Hiring, Attrition and Compensation Trend 2020-21', around 81 per cent of the r...
Hiring activity sees decline of 62% in April 2020 compared to April 2019: Naukri JobSpeak
The decline in hiring is led by industries like hotel/restaurant/travel/airlines (-91%), auto/ancillary (-82%), retail (-77%) and accounting...
CSS Corp rolls out pay hikes, to hire 1000 people this quarter
The company is planning to hire 1000 employees by the end of June across markets. Companies such as Infosys, Wipro, TCS, WNS and others have...
86% fear job losses as coronavirus scare mounts: Survey
Worries about job losses are the highest in the country as 86 per cent being worried about losing their jobs and livelihood post-COVID-19 lo...
One in three Indian professionals now have decreased income: LinkedIn survey
IT, media, and manufacturing employees think their firms will do worse in the next 6 months. However, they’re confident about long-term grow...
Talent demand for remote jobs will continue to rise post lockdown: TimesJobs survey
The survey titled ‘Covid-19 and its impact on jobs at India Inc’ aims to understand the impact of the lockdown on the country’s employment s...
India’s jobless rate jumps to 27.1%, survey says
The data could get worse, which “should be expected as the lockdown continues to get prolonged,” CMIE chief said. “Initially, a lockdown onl...
Five in 10 organisations across industries keeping their salary increment budgets unchanged: Survey
According to the survey, five in 10 companies have deferred or suspended their promotion schedule; at the same time a downward trend on prom...
Eight in 10 Indian companies not currently considering permanent staff layoffs or redundancies: Korn Ferry survey
Given the government’s extensive requests on avoiding laying off employees, the majority of companies have not implemented or are not curren...
Rising distress, mounting job losses
About Rs 10 lakh crore worth of output is gone for good while job losses are estimated to have crossed 140 million. May 04, 2020 at 08:26AM
No hiring freeze: Companies hunting top talent despite salary, job cuts
More than 200 director-level and above posts were available over the past week, according to Xpheno, a staffing firm that compiles data from...
India plans a more employer-friendly apprenticeship to cater to MNCs
The skill development and entrepreneurship ministry has received multiple queries from firms abroad on apprenticeship norms in India as they...
Work-from-home job offers for women rise amid COVID-19 crisis
"This is a time when working from home is the new normal. The number of women looking to start or restart their careers has also risen ...
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