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Chubb launches Work from Home Insurance for the Asia Pacific Region SINGAPORE – Chubb announced today the launch of Work from Home (WFH) Insurance, a market-first in Asia Pacific. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional office environment has increasingly become the home, as work from home becomes the new normal. As businesses […]
A COVID-19 crisis by default but possibilities by design thinking in Human Resources Amidst jokes about the Coronavirus actually going viral and the unlocking gradually showing its face, we are learning to come to terms with the effects of the pandemic. While HR teams are exploring ways of aligning policies to the ‘New Normal’, there […]
Top 6 Allowances & Benefits for Work from Home Employees especially in times of COVID-19 Crisis Our world, a couple of months back, was so different from what it is now. COVID-19 has turned everything upside down, stirred things up, and given us a new normal with no option but to come to terms with it. People, […]
Government to pay EPF contributions (entire 24%) of employees and employers till Aug 2020 PTI | The Union Cabinet on 8 July, Wednesday approved a proposal to extend the scheme for the payment of employers and employees’ PF contributions for three months until August 2020. Earlier, in May this year finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had […]
Capgemini India rolls out wage hikes and promotions effective 01 July 2020 Admit the COVID-19 pandemic when most companies in India have withheld salary hikes and effected pay cuts, Capgemini has rolled out wage hikes and promotions for all its employees in India. The quantum of hikes is said to be in high single digits. In April, the […]
ICICI Bank to give 80k employees up to 8% pay hike for work amid COVID-19 According to a PTI report, The country’s second-largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has decided to reward over 80,000 of its frontline employees with a salary hike of up to 8 percent These employees form over 80 percent of its overall workforce […]
Career Wellbeing While Work From Home, a new normal during COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown have proved to be disruptive for businesses across industries in India and elsewhere. Data shows that urban unemployment has risen 30.9% and the overall unemployment rate is at 23.4%. The few weeks of lockdown has […]
Accenture cuts up to 900 jobs in UK as Covid-19 pandemic hits demand Consulting firm Accenture is cutting up to 900 jobs, or 8% of its UK workforce, as the coronavirus pandemic prompted a sharp slump in demand for its advisory work. Demand for consultants has dropped during the financial downturn caused by the pandemic, […]
Accenture wants its employees less stressed, announces No late calls and fewer Friday meetings As the world in under lockdown and IT professionals are working from home, top IT services major Accenture feels that the employees are more stressed while being at home. According to a Bloomberg report, Accenture has asked people to end conference calls by around 5:30 […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a global health crisis of our time impacting severely our day to day life. With the industry growth rates projected to be the lowest in many years/decades, Business Continuity from a workforce management perspective will take precedence and HR teams will be required to track, measure, and pre-empt what can […]
Exclusive Conversation with Biplob Banerjee, Chief People Officer, ABD India Ltd Biplob joined ABD in November 2018 and presently serves as Chief People Officer, leading human resource functions including talent acquisition and retention, learning and development, employee engagement, and welfare, rewards, recognition, compensation, and benefits. Biplob has over 25 years of experience in the fields […]
Top IT Companies’ Observations on “Productivity in Work From Home Setting” Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most IT companies have given permission for professionals to work from home. IT and Tech majors are keen on making work from home seamless, engaging, and developing trust between their employees in a remote working environment. The expectation from […]