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While Travis Kalanick, CEO at Uber, was here in India last year, he discussed how important the country is to the company and how it wants to penetrate deeper into the society. Uber has signed MoUs in the past and launched campaigns to…

In a recent survey about tech related skills requirement, it was found that project management would be great demand next year. Right from electronics to manufacturing; aviation to health, project managers would be high demand right…

IITs, the premier educational establishment of India which boasts of the highest quality of engineers, are right now trying to figure out what went wrong here. The reason is that, Rs 1 crore+ pay packages for freshers passing out from…

The horrors of Mandal Commission protests of 1990s have not been forgotten yet. The reservation debate and subsequent battle and chaos it generated is one of the black marks of our history. The divide it created between lower and upper…

Imagine a future where almost every job is done by artificial intelligence. Cars don’t have drivers. Planes don’t have pilots. Hospitals don’t have doctors. Architects have been replaced by intelligent software. Police and the military…

78 year old Larsen & Toubro (L&T), which is India’s largest engineering firm has decided to terminate 14,000 employees in a single go. This is being described as India’s largest ever layoff. 14,000 employees represent 11.2%…

LinkedIn has been trying to make an impression in the Indian job industry with a slew of services like the Placements and Starter Pack. The Indian job market is not very straight forward, and competing companies like Naukri.com and…

“I can have no consideration for machinery which is meant either to enrich the few at the expense of the many, of without cause to displace the useful labour of many” - Mahatma Gandhi World Bank has reconfirmed our fears and…

In the past, we have seen companies like TCS, Foxconn, Zomato and Snapdeal lay off employees owing to both automation and yearly reviews to relieve employees that do not perform well. Layoffs create a certain tension in the market when…

In one of the most innovative and pro-employment steps ever taken, Indian Govt. is now offering contractual jobs across 12 major creative and technical disciplines on the official MyGov Portal. These job offers have been floated with…

Govt. of India has introduced a slew of labor reforms which will benefit all employees and workers in the organized sector. Besides paving way for creation of new jobs, these amendments in the Factories Act, 1948 and The Maternity…

There is both positive and negative news for Indian job-seekers. The volatile see-saw pattern in Indian jobs was witnessed prominently as mixed news came in from different quarters. But first, the positive news. More Hiring, Even…

This has to be the less debated reform from the government, luckily. Henceforth working women in private sector may soon be entitled to 26-week maternity leave under the newly yet to be passed mandate called ‘The Model Shops and…

Women empowerment movement in India has received a serious setback after depressing facts were revealed in a latest International Labour Organization report. Within the last 10 years, that is between 2005 & 2014, India witnessed…

Last year in the month of July, Assocham released a report which stated that 42% of Indian employees are suffering from depression. And now, a new report from Edenred-Ipsos Barometer has presented a completely opposite, rosy picture…

In it’s first ever successful attempt, LinkedIn published “Top Attractors”, a compilation of those employers who attract the best talent and manage to retain “the fun” in serious high paying job profiles. For a brand like Goldman…

For the first time in India, it has been confirmed that IT employees are free to form trade unions for various purposes. Before this confirmation, there was ambiguity on the question of trade unions inside IT industry. As per the…

Wipro has developed a state of the art Artificial Intelligence platform called Holmes which has been described as “.. a rich set of cognitive computing services for the development of digital virtual agents, predictive systems,…

The biggest problem which a defence personal faces after retiring from military service is adapting to the uneven, random and inconsistent civilian world. Inside Army, Air-Force or Navy, the instructions are pretty clear: Kill the enemy…

The rise of automation and the dawn of robots in manufacturing is now becoming so mainstream that its no longer a ‘futuristic’ proposition. In one of the largest terminations ever recorded in human history, iPhone manufacturer…