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E-retailers to hire flexi-temp to meet festive rush

E-retailers to hire flexi-temp to meet festive rush

An article in Finanical Express talks about how e-retailers will use an additional 50,000 temporary workers this festive season to be able to meet delivery schedules; along with...

Students take online route to earn and learn

Students take online route to earn and learn

An article in ET Wealth, talks about how students are taking up online jobs to earn and learn; along with inputs from Neeti Sharma. Studying, making money and...

SMEs attracting women with offers of greater flexibility

SMEs attracting women with offers of greater flexibility

Women in SMEs occupy many different positions, which is typically not the norm with large companies, she said, adding that small organisations are more supportive of women trying...

Temporary workers in demand on good rains

Temporary workers in demand on good rains

"The requirement will be more during the harvesting period," said SP Shukla, an agricultural sector analyst. The temporary staff work as field assistants in most of the cases....

Squeezing hostages

Squeezing hostages

The cadre restructuring has the usual whacky ideas; it revives the post of deputy provident fund commissioner (same work profile as assistant provident fund commissioner but with a...

Brace for more consolidation in online HR space: Experts

Brace for more consolidation in online HR space: Experts

Human resource experts are of the opinion that online job sites are losing marketshare in recent times to social, mobile and analytical platforms in recruitment. "They are. Because...

Elders clear Bill allowing 6-month maternity leave

Elders clear Bill allowing 6-month maternity leave

New law applicable to establishments employing more than 10 persons The Maternity Bill in India, which was cleared by the Cabinet on Wednesday, got passed in Rajya Sabha...

Extra maternity leave will cut attrition

Extra maternity leave will cut attrition

Many progressive companies like Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Flipkart, HCL Technologies, PwC, Accenture, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Godrej and Tata Group voluntarily offer around 6 months of paid maternity...

Don’t use WhatsApp to ask for leave or send office work, companies tell staff.

Don’t use WhatsApp to ask for leave or send office work, companies tell staff.

“Managers expect an immediate response to queries on WhatsApp (if the message is read). That’s unfair and we are undertaking sensitisation drives among employees and managers … The...

Putting India to work

Putting India to work

Companies will have a single number for every operation (today companies have 27 different numbers issued under various Acts and by various regulators). Most employers in India will...

Atlas shrugged

Atlas shrugged

Dr Rajiv Chatterjee, consulting orthopaedic surgeon, Columbia Asia Hospital, Calcutta, prescribes daily exercise. "One should brisk walk, run or skip rope. Swimming is also a very good option,"...

Five tips to crack an interview

Five tips to crack an interview

Giving your first interview can be quite unnerving. I remember the first interview I gave for a campus placement. After clearing two rounds comprising of a group discussion...

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