It Employees

Why did EY fire dozens of US staff for attending mandatory training events?

Several of the fired employees expressed disbelief, arguing they were unaware they were breaking any rules and that their intention was merely to attend interesting sessions

Work from office near pre-pandemic levels, will stop tracking soon: TCS

The country's largest IT services exporter TCS has reached pre-pandemic levels on the percentage of employees working from offices, a top official has said. Admitting that it took longer than expected, the Tata group company's chief of human resources Milind Lakkad said the levels have been achieved after 18 months of "hard" efforts. "We actually have come to the point where we believe we are coming back to almost the same levels as we were pre-pandemic times," Lakkad told PTI. Stating that "it is kind of a business as usual" for the company employing over 6 lakh people, Lakkad said TCS will not track this metric as much in the next couple of quarters. The number of employees working from offices for five days a week is higher than the 70 per cent it had previously announced, he said, without giving a figure. It can be noted that the pandemic-induced lockdowns resulted in the entire IT industry's staff delivering work from their homes, but companies, who look at working from offic

Asked to work from home, then fired: How Stellantis laid off 400 employees

Stellantis laid off around 400 employees in a video call after asking them to do work from home on a particular day. They will now get a comprehensive separation package and transition assistance

IT industry opposes Karnataka IT Union's call to end relief in labour rules

On March 16, a section of IT employees, under the banner of KITU, staged a protest in front of the labour commissioner's office in Bengaluru to press for their views

TMS Ep602: IT talent, Interim Budget 2024, Q3 results, truckers' strike

Does India IT have a talent management problem? What will be the stance of Interim Budget 2024? What should we expect from Q3 results? Which law changes led to the truckers' strike? Answers here

Employee costs to haunt Indian IT even as biz prospects improve: Analysts

Indian IT Services companies, Goldman Sachs said, have doubled their market share in the last 10 years to 6.2 per cent of the global IT spending in CY22

IT employees union NITES urges Nasscom to act against job frauds

NITES in a letter to NASSCOM sai the increasing number of frauds and scams are targeting thousands of fresher's and experienced employees in the IT sector

Hiring slowdown lifts India's top IT companies' profit per employee

Productivity improves in terms of revenue per employee

43% Indian IT employees find moonlighting favourable, says report

Amid the growing debate on moonlighting, a new report has revealed that 43 per cent of employees in the Indian IT sector find moonlighting favourable

Kerala govt to meet Byju's executives on Nov 2 as 170 staff asked to resign

A meeting was called by the officials of the labour department on October 25, but the company did not appear for meeting

Wipro asks employees to report to office at least three days a week

The firm's office will remain open for four days each week

80% of IT employees need better reason to go to office, says report

Several companies, the report claims, have introduced higher variable pay and employee engagement budgets while cutting down the internet allowance to make employees return to the office

Productivity 'hyper focus' hurting employees, causing attrition: Report

Only 9% of managers say hybrid work model gives them confidence that employees are productive

Employees will get 100% variable pay for June quarter, no delay: TCS

So far, more than 90 per cent of TCS employees have received the variable payout, according to the largest software exporter in India.

Indian employees likely to see bigger salary hike in 2023, says report

Some of the sectors which have been included in the survey are- financial services, banking, and technology, media and gaming

Wipro holds back employees' variable pay due to pressure on margins

IT company Wipro has held back variable pay of employees mainly due to pressure on margins, inefficiency in its talent supply chain and investment in technology, according to sources

TMSEp200: Single-use plastic, IT workers, Nilesh Shah, twin deficit problem

Will Frooti packs go off the shelves? Can an IT employee be classified as a workman? What is Nilesh Shah's take on investors' approach to markets? What is a twin deficit problem? All answers here

Can an IT sector employee be classified as a workman?

A labour court in Chennai recently asked TCS to reinstate a former employee and clear all his past dues. This could become a reference for performance-related unlawful terminations in the IT industry

Will 20% hikes and higher fresher pay be the new norm in IT sector?

Amid the race to hire and retain talents, several IT companies are outdoing each other in doling out attractive packages and bonuses. Will such hikes become the new norms? Find out in this report

What is attracting IT giants to smaller cities?

Tech companies are venturing into smaller cities in search of talents. And they are finding many in cities like Coimbatore, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow and Jaipur. What are the reasons for this trend?