In an era where top CEOs earn salaries that were formerly reserved for lottery winning amounts, Paul Polman comes as a breath of fresh air. The CEO of Unilever says that he is “somewhat ashamed” by his $10 million Euro salary, maintaining that he probably has the simplest job in the company.
Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has not sent offer letters to students it selected through campus placements in 2014, a reddit user has alleged. The anonymous poster, who hinted that the incident happened at Manipal University, claimed that students who’d been offered the jobs were doing odd jobs at 5-10k per month while they waited to join the company.
Yesterday the internet was abuzz with reports of a Muslim man who’d been denied a job because of his faith. Zeshan Ali Khan had applied for…
The Labour ministry has proposed that house rent, gratuity, traveling and other allowances be calculated as part of the “contributing wages” on which provident fund would be deducted. This would mean higher contributions to your PF each month, and a cut in your take home pay.
Saudi Arabia has a problem. It’s been putting a lot of people on death row recently, and there aren’t enough executioners around to carry out the wishes of the State. The solution? Take out on ad, of course.
It’s boom-time for startups across the world. The unicorn, or a startup with a valuation greater than $1 billion (so named because it used to be as rare as the mythical creature), has now become commonplace. As of 2015, 107 companies across the world feature in this elite list.
The top startups in India in 2015 are, keeping with the times, mostly internet based companies. Mu Sigma, a Bangalore-based analytics firm, makes an interesting entry into the list.
Companies do all sorts of things to promote their products. They buy slots on hoardings, they do TV commercials, they even get people to dress in ridiculous costumes and hand out flyers. But what this Dutch man did was quite amazing – he cycled all the way from Amsterdam to London – with his cats.
Remember when you spent all your time playing computer games and your mum would tell you that you’d amount to nothing? There’s a guy who’s quit his job to play World of Warcraft for a year – and when he was done, he founded a billion dollar company.
After declaring that he would give distribute his company’s shares among his employees, Rahul Yadav has challenged rival CEOs to do the same.