In a first in the UK, Coexist, a community interest company in Bristol, has announced period or menstrual leave for its women employees. The move has been largely welcomed by women all the world, and in India women wish to ask for the same.
#FuelledBylove, the latest ad campaign by British Airways highlights true stories as told by their crew members on India bound flights, and bring out the various little things about India and its culture that make it a special experience for the crew. The ads are emotional and make the employees and crew members a part of brand story telling.
When they say you gotta ‘sell’ yourself well to land a good job, some people take it rather literally. Throwing himself into the job ‘market’, Akash Neeraj Mittal, an IIT-Kolkata alumnus, created a Flipkart-like resume, to well, raise his stakes to land an assistant product manager job at the hallowed Ecommerce company.
Wipro is moving with the times. Joining the growing list of traditional companies which have junked the bell curve as a performance assessment tool for their employees, the IT services giant Wipro is breaking away from convention and doing away with the Bell Curve method of employee appraisal. Last year Infosys, CISCO, KPMG and Accenture had also discarded this system of employee appraisal.
According to the annual Economic Survey 2016, by the government of India, it has emerged that only about 5.5% of the people who earn pay their taxes and only 15.5% of the net national income is reported to the tax authorities.
With the clamour around the Make In India slogan. Parle Bisleri’s re-entry in a market they dominated more than 3 decades ago, signals a coming of a full circle.
Hamza Khan was in for a mild shock when he received an interesting job offer. He was emailed by someone claiming to be a recruiter who had seen Khan’s website and decided to send him an in-depth critique of it, and then tried to blackmail him into working for him.
The email is from a supposed Architecture engineer called Jacob Worstell working at the anti-spam email company, Sharklasers. The email lists out all the problems with Khan’s website in points, and is peppered with expletives.
Flipkart Shuts Down Its Groceries Arm Nearby. Last year there was a spurt of players in the online grocery delivery business with new players like Peppertap and Grofers and biggies like Flipkart with Nearby, Ola with Ola store and Amazon with Amazon groceries entering the fray. Though recent events point out to the potential lack of feasibility of a grocery delivery business. Recently, Peppertap had scaled down operations by shutting down in 6 major cities and Grofers had shut down in 9 cities.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Technology may have become sharper, smarter and smaller, but the foundations at the core of tech still owe their genesis to inventions of the 70’s. And just as well. There is no need for an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality if your office continues to operate in an efficient and productive way.
Here are a few things using the technology from almost half a century ago, that are still used in the office of today.