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Business Line November 24, 2008
Recruiters headed for slow-growth phase |
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Business Line October 22, 2008
Cos going slow on lateral hires |
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The Times of India Monday October 20, 2008
Pink Slip Blues |
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The Times of India Friday October 17, 2008
Recruitment market shrinks; hirers in a fix |
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The Economist Times Friday October 17, 2008
Recruitment shrinks, hirers in trouble |
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The Telegraph Thursday October 16, 2008
10 ways to ride the bad times |
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Business Line Tuesday September 01, 2008
IT majors see red at the bottom |
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The Times of India Monday July 28, 2008
'Outplacing' employees to become leaner |
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Busniess Line Thursday July 08, 2008
Hefty salary hikes turn a thing of the past |
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Livemint.com (THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) Tuesday June 10, 2008
Small outfits offer big opportunities |
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Busniess Line Thursday May 22, 2008
They are beginning to look beyond IT space |
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The Times of India Saturday March 15, 2008
More pink-slips for techies this year |
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The Economic Times Tuesday March 11, 2008
Hiring in IT industry slows down 40-50% |
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Corporate News Wednesday March 5, 2008
Microsoft, Infosys 'incubating talent' to beat attrition blues |
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The Times of India Monday January 14, 2008
Rookies rule the roost today.... Fresh Look |
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The Times of India Friday January 4, 2008
Bada title, chhota kaam from indian techies |
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The Economic Times Wednesday January 2, 2008
ENABLING COMFORT At Workplace |
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The Hindu Business Line Wednesday January 2, 2008
Hiring moves beyond realm of IT, ITeS |
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ENABLING COMFORT At Workplace |
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“Satellite offices have been set up at city centres which intend to provide expecting women and young mothers an alternative to cut down travel time to workplaces-a step towards flexi working concept”
HOME OFFICE
“Work from home is something that is going to make a world of difference in the future. With video conference, the need to meet face-to-face is achieved in a virtual way”
INDIA’S IT services industry is spawning many innovations to retain scarce talent at a time when attrition and growing demand for quality professionals far outstrip ready-todeploy workforce. While many best practises like gender diversity, flexi timing and work from home may have been promoted by multinationals, companies operating from India are coming up with tailor-made policies to suit the local working environment.
IT services major Infosys, for instance, did a first by opening an office in downtown Bangalore on MG Road for young mothers and expecting women. The initiative is to reduce commute time to company campuses, that are located on city fringes. Says an Infosys official, “Recently we have set up a satellite office at MG Road which intends to provide expecting as well as young mothers an al-ternative to cut down travel time from their residence to office. As of now, we have this facility in Bangalore.” Women constitute 30% of the 80,000-strong work force at Infosys as in October 2007.
At Infosys, the introduction of structured career breaks for employees who became parents showed that flexibility is valued by all — the first person to avail of the benefit wasn’t a new mother, but a new father.
There are also companies that choose to operate out of central business district and offer location as a kind of USP for future employees. For instance, Unisys in Bangalore and ADP in Hyderabad. Unisys, the captive of $4-billion Unisys Corporation, has a new initiative called ‘work from hometown’ that is targeted at all those employees who are compelled to shift to cities where the company has no operations. Says Unisys CEO Mukul Agrawal, “In a span of 6 months, about 50 to 60 employees have availed this facility.” Unisys has full-time employees working from Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Davanagere, Trichy, Visakhapatnam, Pune, Chikkamagalur, Delhi and temps in Bangalore and the US. According to E Balaji, COO of Ma Foi, “More and more companies are following the flexi and tele commuting model and many more are open to second life where they recruit people in their 50s. Also, there is an increasing trend of a graded re-entry of women employees into the workforce post maternity lasting over a period of six to nine months.”
Companies like TutorVista, an online education service provider where Indian teachers provide tuitions for students in the US, boast of a work force where the average age is 50. With a strength of 500, TutorVista operates on a model where teachers from tier II and III towns are often up at 3 am coaching kids in the US. Clearly age is no barrier but flaky internet connection could well be. Use of technology could also bring about a wave of change in the way organisations will work. “Work from home is something that is going to make a world of difference in the future. With video-conference, the need to meet face-to-face is achieved virtually. So, apart from team lunches, parties and goal setting meetings, work from home culture will be the next wave,” says Ad Astra founder Nirupama VG. |
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