Ready To Quit Your Job? Follow These 5 Rules Before Taking The Leap
In 2013 Gallup published a report on State of The Global Workplace and revealed some staggering data. Only 13% of the global workforce is actively engaged in their jobs, while 63% are not engaged and 24% actively disengaged. The data is more troubling for us, the Southeast Asia inhabitants. Only 12% of our workforce is actively engaged in this region, while 73% are not engaged and 14% are actively disengaged.
Netflix Announces Extended Parental Leave, Microsoft Follows
Juggling motherhood and career gets easier now. Netflix, the American on-demand video streaming company, announced a new policy of unlimited maternity and paternity leave for the first year after a child’s birth or adoption.
5 Ways To Have A Productive Meeting
Two things happen at a meeting. Few people give presentation and talk about the meeting’s agenda and others try hard not to doze off. But that’s not how meetings should be. Employees should feel motivated to attend and actively take part in the discussion. But that hardly happens.
Rapper Calls Them Out in Brilliant Video; Unilever Responds
Unilever was recently called out in a video put together by the activist campaigning group Jhatkaa, highlighting the issue of mercury poisoning and environment pollution caused by a former Unilever factory set up in Kodaikanal, a hilly town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The company responds, refuting most of the allegations.
Vishal Sikka Completes One Year At Infosys. What’s Changed?
An ‘outsider’ to the second largest Indian IT service family, Vishal Sikka, the CEO of Infosys Ltd. completes a year in his office. This has been a year of relentless effort to set Infosys on the right course to instigate innovation and modify the existing business model to make the company future-ready.
Graduate Who Got Job At Train Station Comes Back To Offer One
Fresh out of college, looking for job, tons of rejection and sleepless nights – we all have been there. So was Alfred Ajani. The 22 years old Marketing Graduate from Coventry University, England applied to more than 300 jobs since his graduation in May last year. But nothing worked out. When others in his shoes would get demotivated, Ajani came up with a unique job hunting idea.
Overcome Any Sales Objection: Never Take ‘No’ For An Answer
For any sales representative, the biggest challenge ever, is to overcome the fear of rejection. Whether you are cold calling a prospective customer or pitching your idea, you might think they are on the verge of getting convinced, and then they said, “I’m not interested, thank you.” What should you do in such a situation? Of course there is no option to feel demotivated or panic. If you are in Sales, coping with rejection and coming out as a winner is the first and foremost thing to adapt.
Startups Are Disrupting These 7 Traditional Businesses In India
Here is a roundup of some of the traditional businesses that are feeling the pinch of the mushrooming startups that threaten to affect them and eventually even displace them. What remains to be seen is whether the traditional businesses will adapt to this change, reinvent themselves and join in the wave on a “If you can’t beat them, join them” philosophy, or wait it out, let the wave pass, for the VC funded startups to bust as the red bottomlines begin to show, and emerge as the classics.
Firing Round At FabFurnish: 50 Employees Sacked As Part Of “Business Positioning”
FabFurnish.com has fired at least 50 employees, or about a fourth of its workforce. It is vacating warehouses as part of a business restructuring. The online furniture seller is changing its model and laying off employees at various levels. The company said it has “undertaken a resource optimisation exercise” and is “hiring a talent pool ideal for our new business positioning”.