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San Francisco University Lays Off Its IT Workers, Outsourced Their Work To India

1Mar By reutersNo Comments

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San Francisco University Lays Off Its IT Workers, Outsourced Their Work To India

San Francisco: The University of California, San Francisco on Tuesday laid off 49 information technology (IT) employees and outsourced their work to a company based in India, ending a year-long process that has brought the public university under fire. The university announced the plan last July as a way to save $30 million over five years. The University of California system, which includes health care and research-focused UCSF, has been struggling to raise revenue and cut expenses. Globalization and outsourcing have become hot-button political issues in the United States, as more employers cut costs by farming out work to low-cost workers in far-flung parts of the world. President Donald Trump campaigned on promises to restore lost U.S. jobs and to penalize companies that move fact...

Microsoft Launched Linkedin Mini Version For Semi Skilled Workers in India

23Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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Microsoft Launched Linkedin Mini Version For Semi Skilled Workers in India

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today made a strong case for using digital technologies to empower the common man and launched a slew of India-centric initiatives, including a platform to connect semi-skilled workers with employers. The technology giant also launched a 'lite' version of its video interaction platform Skype. "If digital technology is only the purview of the large businesses and the start-ups, I think that is not sufficient for an economy to make progress," the India-born Nadella said speaking at a company event here. We’ve built Skype Lite for India, it's lightweight and has #Aadhar integration built in.@satyanadella #FutureDecoded — Microsoft India (@MicrosoftIndia) February 22, 2017 "We can celebrate technology, but if it doesn't truly empower every Indian and eve...

Indian IT Industry Faces Twin Challenges of Trump, Automation

19Feb By reutersNo Comments

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Indian IT Industry Faces Twin Challenges of Trump, Automation

Automation and the new US administration were the big unknowns at the Indian tech sector's annual shindig this week, with machines threatening to take away thousands of jobs and concerns over possible visa rule changes in the key American market. But senior executives from the USD 150 billion industry, which rose to prominence at the turn of the century by helping Western firms solve the "Y2K" bug, said companies with skilled English-speaking staff and low costs could not be written off yet. The sector, led by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Ltd and Wipro Ltd , is lobbying hard as the new US administration under President Donald Trump considers putting in place visa restrictions. The administration may also raise salaries paid to H1-B visa holders, a move that could significant...

21Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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BBC Launching Services in 4 New Indian Languages, Opening 157 New Jobs

The BBC Worldwide Service today said its plan to launch services in 11 new languages, four of them Indian - Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi - was progressing well and they would be operational by mid-2017. The services in the four Indian languages, which will focus on radio, mobile and video content, will create 157 new jobs, the London-headquartered broadcaster said. Addressing the media at the Mumbai Press Club, Indu Shekhar Sinha, Head of Business Development (Asia Pacific), BBC Worldwide Service, said, "We, as a broadcaster, are going to launch services in Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi with focus on radio services, mobile and video content, thus opening the vacancies 157 new jobs in India. "This is certainly one of our biggest expansions till date and is the part of...

3Nov By NitishNo Comments

INDIA

Indian Govt. and Linkedin Sign MoU to Create More Jobs For Students

Leading global professional network LinkedIn today said it has signed an agreement with the human resource development ministry to create more job opportunities for Indian students. As part of the MoU, LinkedIn's 'Placements' product will be adopted by all Indian colleges affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the company said in a release issued here. 'Placements' provides a level-playing field for all students, regardless of their location or college and allows them to take an online assessment test, which gives them direct access to thousands of openings in 35 top corporates in India, it added. "We're excited to work with the HRD ministry and AICTE to help students get greater access to the 'Placements' product. Our objective with 'Placements' is to ...

Dissatisfaction With Job on the Rise, Employees Blame Poor Work-life Balance: Survey

30Oct By AdityaNo Comments

ANALYSIS

Dissatisfaction With Job on the Rise, Employees Blame Poor Work-life Balance: Survey

A Whopping 60% Indian Employees are not Satisfied With Their Current job, 80% are Looking out for job Change Reveals the 'Job Satisfaction 2016' by Timesjobs. India Inc. is about to be bumped over by a big challenge - that of talent retention. The findings of the 'Job Satisfaction 2016' survey reveals that 60% employees are not satisfied with their current job and 80% of the participating employees stated that they are looking to switch jobs. Compared to the 'Job Satisfaction 2015' survey results there has been a noticeable rise in the level of dissatisfaction. In the 2015 study, 78% employees stated that they were happy with their current job, although they were still open to other opportunities. This drop in satisfaction is a sharp contradiction to the claims and promises of Ind...

Vine a Mobile App For Video Sharing Will Be Discontinue

28Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Vine a Mobile App For Video Sharing Will Be Discontinue

Twitter Inc announced Thursday that it would discontinue the video-sharing mobile app Vine, as it moves to cut 9 percent of its workforce worldwide to keep costs down after beating Wall Street quarterly earnings expectations. In the post twitter said, "Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold. Today, we are sharing the news that in the coming months we’ll be discontinuing the mobile app." The decision comes on the heels of a failed attempt to sell Twitter as it fights against stagnant user growth and mounting competition from other social media platforms. In a post published jointly by Twitter and Vine to the blog platform Medium, the social media services said that the Vine website would stay live even after the mobile app is...

Sairee Chahal Led SHEROES Acquires Gharkamai.com

8Oct By NitishNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Sairee Chahal Led SHEROES Acquires Gharkamai.com

World's largest career platform for women SHEROES has announced acquiring Gharkamai.com - an online platform which helps professional home-based women find work. With the labor force participation of women in India witnessing a dip and over 300 million women eager to connect or reconnect to opportunities and achieve financial independence, this acquisition aids such women to find work on their own terms. "SHEROES helps women to take control of their careers, whether it is home based, part-time, or full time. It also allows companies, the access to this diverse and high quality talent pool. We are very excited and welcome the users of Gharkamai to Sheroes and assure to help them find career success on their own terms," said Founder and CEO of SHEROES, Sairee Chahal. The pla...

Automation Threatens 69% Jobs in India: World Bank

7Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Automation Threatens 69% Jobs in India: World Bank

Automation threatens 69 per cent of the jobs in India, while 77 per cent in China, according to a World Bank research which has said that technology could fundamentally disrupt the pattern of traditional economic path in developing countries. “As we continue to encourage more investment in infrastructure to promote growth, we also have to think about the kinds of infrastructure that countries will need in the economy of the future. We all know that technology has and will continue to fundamentally reshape the world,” World Bank president Jim Kim said. “But the traditional economic path from increasing productivity of agriculture to light manufacturing and then to full-scale industrialisation may not be possible for all developing countries,” Mr. Kim said in response to a question at the ...

SHEROES Acquires Counseling and Support Platform LoveDoctor.in

16Sep By NitishNo Comments

ACQUISITION

SHEROES Acquires Counseling and Support Platform LoveDoctor.in

SHEROES.in, the career platform for women, has acquired love, relationship, and sexual health counseling platform LoveDoctor.in in an aim to broaden the type of support and community offered to over 800,000 platform members. LoveDoctor.in, a counseling service that has been operating for over 2 years via web-based chat, SMS, and WhatsApp has answered over 50,000 questions from young people aged 16-25 across the world, but with a focus on India, East Africa, and Southeast Asia. LoveDoctor.in founder and CEO Avani Parekh joins SHEROES as Director of Community and Empathy with a goal of making SHEROES a one stop shop for women around the world to build their careers, find supportive community, level up their skill sets, and explore new possibilities for their lives beyond the workday. Av...

Flipkart & Snapdeal Will Hire 20000 Staff Ahead of Festive Season

11Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Flipkart & Snapdeal Will Hire 20000 Staff Ahead of Festive Season

E-commerce major Flipkart expects to hire over 10,000 temporary staff to ramp up its delivery and logistics service to meet the festive demand. The move comes as part of the preparations being made by e-commerce companies as they launch offers to boost sales during the upcoming festive period. "With the festive season coming in, we are confident that Big Billion Days (sale) will be bigger and better than before this year. "In addition to having the new capability of alternate delivery model, we are looking at hiring more than 10,000 temporary staff in logistics and last mile across the country," Flipkart Chief Administrative Officer Nitin Seth said. This will be done to meet the massive demand that Flipkart expects during the festive season, he added. Flipkarts rival Snapdeal al...

Startups are Hopeless, Will Not Create Enough Jobs: Kishore Biyani

7Sep By NitishNo Comments

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Startups are Hopeless, Will Not Create Enough Jobs: Kishore Biyani

Stating that startups are "hopeless" and 90 per cent of them "are not going anywhere", Future Group CEO Kishore Biyani today said. They have been made to look attractive only through daily full-page ads on newspapers. Insisting that the startups must work on a bigger canvas, he said at the current state these new ventures would be too small to create the number of jobs which India requires. "I think 90 per cent startups are not going anywhere. They are hopeless...In next three-four years revenues of these companies would not be more than Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 4,000 crore," Biyani said here at the Economist India Summit. Lashing out at the functioning of these new companies, he said: "I think startup has become sexy because of one page ad everyday (on newspapers). Otherwise I don...