Tag: Jobs

Not too long ago (January 2017, to be precise), France passed a law which banned companies with more than 50 employees from sending them emails after working hours. This attempt to restore work-life balance gave the French workers the much-needed right to disconnect after leaving their designated places of work. Many European countries already have laws in place which...

Joining an all-star digital marketing team on one’s favourite agency is every online marketer’s dream.A survey by The Manifest showed that 50% of businesses use a marketing agency for help with their internet marketing efforts.Digital marketers are crucial to the success of an agency. They run successful campaigns on behalf of the agency thus increasing profits. Not only that....

Everyone goes through stressful days at work. But for some employees, it's not just about the hashtag of #MondayBlues! In fact, stress becomes the regular visitor and their reality. This can also be dubbed metaphorically as a disease of the modern day Work Culture - Employee Burn Out!But the question is, how common is Employee Burnout and what exactly...

With the eCommerce giants, Flipkart and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), consistently trying to trump up against each other, this battle is no longer confined. While the ultimate war for dominance over India's $17.8-billion online retail market sustains, these companies are hawk-eyeing the young talent pool, marking dates for Campus Recruitment.According to recent reports, both the companies are knocking themselves out in...

How do you pave way for a digital future and reorient working professionals?Simplilearn, an EdTech company seems to have an answer. According to Simplilearn's Career Impact Survey 2018, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are the most widely chose domains for reskilling among working professionals in India. 25% of respondents chose AI and ML for suitable domains for upgrading...

In a recent report by Mercer, titled "Employee Engagement Index", it is concluded that even though a considerable number of people in India feel engaged at work and are happy with their workplace, one in four employees would leave their job if they were given the opportunity. A sizable share of employees in each organisation was not contented with their...

The previous rumours claimed that Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has been working on developing its own chips and now new reports suggest that it has poached one of the world's leading chip developers of Google to reach its goal. The move indicates how serious Facebook is about having its own semiconductors, like Apple and Google.Earlier this year Facebook had started working on in-house chip...

The online hiring in India has undergone a vivid decline in the month of June, both on the monthly and yearly basis. A new report by the Monster Employment Index has left everyone surprised as the production and manufacturing sector were portraying strong recruitment activity. The Monster Employment Index registered a 3% YoY decline in online hiring in India in...

Attention! All the budding engineers, who have always dreamt of working with a top-notch MNC, here is your chance! The global leader in digital payments PayPal, which has always proved its commitment to India in several ways, is all set to hire almost 600 techies in India by the end of December this year. As of now, the recruits will...

The race to go great guns at clapping hands on the top tech talent from prominent colleges is pretty perennial. Typically, tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are all dead set on for pooling in top graduates. However, the list of top companies to work for student has some interesting insights worth paying attention to.A recent study...

The first quarter of the fiscal year 2018 did not show much sustainable job gains, after the record-breaking solid job rain of 2017 until now. However, employment growth is likely to remain solid for the remainder of 2018. According to ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, comprising of 5,110 employers, Indian hiring companies plan to propel recruitments, at a steady pace in...

Persisting for a long time now is an off-base assumption that commute issues are an obscure factor to be taken into consideration. While a major section of an employee as well as employers polls up on salaries, perks and incentives, equal priority is to be given to the average commute of a day. Hence, moon-walking in as the much-needed...

In the latest report, KPMG has addressed salary increment, variable pay, benefits and the employee attrition and retention rate in India. The report, titled India's Annual Compensation Trends Survey for the year 2018-19, aimed its analysis on 272 companies across 18 sectors. The report depicts detailed insights on sector-wise practices and their employment scenario. The average projected salary increment in India for the...

In a developing country like India, it is very difficult for people to find suitable jobs that match their qualification. Nearly 31 million Indians are jobless and searching for a right platform that will help them land dream job they’ve been waiting for. Recently Google took an initiative towards this problem by launching a new search experience that makes...

In most cases, the most coveted job in the marketing sector is working at a large agency. These agency jobs don’t simply fall out of the sky as it is extremely competitive to get hired at an agency that is top notch. Far too many factors go into getting a job at one of these agencies. A proactive approach...

The merger of Vodafone and Idea may ease out financial stress on the management of both the companies, but will put thousands of employees under the axe. According to sources at ET, more than 5,000 employees could lose their jobs if the merger of Vodafone and Idea is through all the regulatory approvals.The proposed merger of Vodafone India and...