A UK Company Is Giving Women Employees A ‘Period Leave’: Indian Women Want It Too
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.
British Airways Crew Show How They Fell In Love With India
#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.
This IITian Created An Amazing Resume To Land Job At Flipkart
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 Ditches Bell Curve Method Of Performance Appraisal
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.
6 Ways to Tell if Your Resume is Your Weakest Link
Considering the average recruiter spends 5 to 7 seconds to read a resume, as a job seeker you’re privileged with a time-frame not much longer than the blink of an eye in which to convince the reader your document doesn’t deserve to be binned. Ouch, that’s gotta hurt! Here’s some egregious mistakes people commonly make with their resumes.
After Flipkart, Ola To Shut Down Its Grocery Delivery Service
The grocery delivery model in India is tottering. Days after Flipkart had announced that it’s shutting down Nearby, its grocery delivery arm, it is now being reported that Ola is on the verge of shutting down its own grocery delivery service, Ola store. Ola Store operated in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Gurgaon.
Reliance Enters Fashion E-Retail Fray, To Launch AJIO
There’s another weird 4 letter word in the Indian fashion retail space. After Aditya Birla had launched Abof (short for Aditya Birla House of Fashion) as its fashion e-retail arm, Reliance Industry has announced that it’s making an entry into the space with AJIO.com.
China Has Just Announced The Biggest Layoffs In History
The slowdown in China – the world’s second largest economy – has started the rolling out of layoffs. In a startling announcement, Chinese Minister for Human Resources and Social Security has stated that China expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in the coal and steel industries.
New Regulations To Prevent Early Withdrawal Of Provident Funds
If you’re a corporate employee that’s been counting on withdrawing your Employee Provident Fund account prematurely, you might need to think again. The Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, has recently made amendments in the Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme, 1952, that make it harder for employees to prematurely withdraw from their EPF accounts.