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Bhise's appointment is effective April 1, 2021; Singh retires after 35 years with the company
Indian leaders surveyed are as young as 37 and the median age is 54, according to a group called Indiaspora.
For over a decade, India's IT industry has seen multiple attempts to mobilise workforce to form an active trade union. The efforts has finally yielded results. Karnataka has recognised Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU) as a workers' body to fight for its rights at a time when the IT sector is facing its worst disruption in a decade. In 2005, the UNITES, a global trade union for IT workers affiliated to IBM, opened its Bengaluru office and looked to mobilise workers from the tech sector in India. However, the efforts did not take off as soon after the financial meltdown in the US that led to a recession, global firms started to offshore work to Indian companies and established their own captives. The result was a job boom in the IT services sector with exports of nearly $ 118 billion in fiscal 2017. The sector besides paying higher wages has been focusing on people welfare, building campuses and employing chief fun officers to engage employees. In the last two years, ...