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Updated on: Sep 2023
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Best R&R Strategy to Engage Employees
Compensation & Benefits

Best R&R Strategy to Engage Employees

Employees are engaged when they, at a fundamental level, (a) are valued for their contribution (b) are learning and growing, manifested in their progress in their careers, and doing meaningful, increasingly larger and more complex assignments where they feel somewhat challenged (but not overwhelmed) (c) are aligned with the company’s value systems, and (d) adequately […]

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Zomato gets Anmol Gupta as Chief Fitness Officer: His job role?
Appointments

Zomato gets Anmol Gupta as Chief Fitness Officer: His job role?

Zomato CEO announced the appointment of Anmol Gupta as the company’s first-ever Chief Fitness Officer on July 31. Deepinder Goyal, Zomato CEO, shared a Tweet sharing the information, “At @zomato, we’ve always been promoting the importance of physical and mental wellbeing for our employees.” “Announcing a paradigm shift in the constitution of our senior team. A […]

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How to Re-Engage the Disengaged Employees
Employee Engagement

How to Re-Engage the Disengaged Employees

Employee disengagement is catastrophic for business, and its severity is often underestimated. A Gallup study, conducted prior to the pandemic revealed that 69% of employees were ‘actively disengaged’, while 51% were ‘not engaged’. In a subsequent study, these numbers worsened, with 74% being ‘actively disengaged’ and 55% not engaged. These statistics are alarming, especially when […]

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Drivers of Employee Engagement in Organisations
Employee Engagement

Drivers of Employee Engagement in Organisations

Employee Engagement—An Overview Employee engagement refers to a mental framework of employees towards work and the workplace as they stay happy, positive, committed to the organisation, and feel a fulfilling experience while at work. Gartner’s ‘Leadership Vision for 2023’ discusses different employee surveys and reported that—52% employees said flexible work practices would affect their decision […]

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EPFO adds 16.30 lakh net members during the month of May, 2023
EPFO

EPFO adds 16.30 lakh net members during the month of May, 2023

EPFO’s provisional payroll data released on 20th July, 2023 highlights that EPFO has added 16.30 lakh net members in the month of May, 2023. The data reveals that 3,673 establishments have extended social security cover of EPFO to their employees by remitting their first ECR during the month. The data indicates that around 8.83 lakh new […]

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Policybazaar employees win houses, cars as new R&R initiative
Industry

Policybazaar employees win houses, cars as new R&R initiative

Policybazaar last week concluded Season 3 of Jeeto Apna Ghar (JAG), an award-winning employee-focused initiative. The company said that across three successful seasons, policybazaar’s Jeeto Apna Ghar contest has 23 houses and 8 cars given out till date – prize money of over 25 Cr. Amid overwhelmingly positive employee feedback, Policybazaar last week concluded Season […]

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Side hustle, HR tried to have me work on weekends, but I quit
Social Media

Side hustle, HR tried to have me work on weekends, but I quit

The company’s HR department called him in for a meeting to discuss his weekend activities. When it became clear where things were headed, the worker decided he’d rather not work for that company anymore. The thread was shared on Reddit by the worker, u/InfiniteMaf. The exact post said, “Got called by HR one day after someone […]

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Accenture to invest $3 bn in data, AI; to double its AI jobs to 80,000
Industry

Accenture to invest $3 bn in data, AI; to double its AI jobs to 80,000

Accenture announced a $3 billion investment over three years in its Data & AI practice to help clients across all industries rapidly and responsibly advance and use AI to achieve greater growth, efficiency, and resilience. “There is unprecedented interest in all areas of AI, and the substantial investment we are making in our Data & AI […]

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Company replaced all Managers with Coaches, result in Happier Employees
Industry

Company replaced all Managers with Coaches, result in Happier Employees

Companies always work on employee engagement and increasing productivity. Recently, a company introduced a new innovative approach in order to boost productivity. After trending up in recent years, employee engagement in the U.S. saw its first annual decline in a decade — dropping from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 34% in 2021. This pattern continued […]

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Shocking incident company locks employees inside the Office
Industry

Shocking incident company locks employees inside the Office

A shocking incident has been reported when a company locks Employees Inside the Office. In a video, a watchman locked the office doors to prevent employees leaving from the office. The shocking incident video was shared by Ravi Handa on Twitter saying, “Indian edtech founders are now literally locking in their employees. Get the hell […]

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Is new liquor policy in Haryana, a game-changer for work culture?
Industry

Is new liquor policy in Haryana, a game-changer for work culture?

Recently, the Haryana government’s new liquor policy 2023-24 allows corporate offices possession and consumption of low alcohol content liquor like beer, and wine, at the workplace. The government has introduced a new excise policy for the year 2023-24 which will be effective from June 12 and was approved by the Haryana Council of Ministers on […]

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Leave Encashment limit increased for salaried employees
Compensation

Leave Encashment limit increased for salaried employees

Tax exemption limit on leave encashment increased to Rs 25 lakh for non-government salaried employees. The tax exemption on leave encashment of non-government salaried employees (in respect of the period of earned leave at his credit at the time of his retirement, whether on superannuation or otherwise) was earlier up to a limit of Rs.3 […]

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