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Coronavirus lockdown | Government, startups and kirana stores come together to deliver essentials
A slew of other startups such as Shiprocket, JustMyRoots, and Ninjacart also ventured in to delivering essentials.
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Chennai-based beauty salon Naturals requests financial aid to remain in business
This is the fate of thousands of salon in the country. While the large ones survive, standalone salons could be forced to shutdown
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Pune Labour Commission sends notice to Wipro for benching employees
This comes after Maharashtra-based IT union National Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) filed a petition with the commission on May 1.
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Greenshoots in tech hiring as multinationals prepare for post-COVID-19 world
Banking and retail multinationals are at the forefront.
BUSINESS
No other crisis has changed the IT sector as much as COVID-19
Starting from changing its working model to re-purposing service lines, IT sector is undergoing a transition, all in the matter of few weeks.
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Coronavirus impact: Wipro starts benching employees as business takes a hit
IT Union NITES has sent a letter to labour commissioner pointing out the impact it might have on the employees.
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Regulatory hurdles need to be sorted to make WFH long term, says WNS CEO
Unlike IT services, shifting to WFH is lot more challenging for BPM firms that employ close to 11 lakh people.
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Looking at touchless tech & cloud to drive growth after COVID-19, says Hexaware CEO
Hexaware suspended the guidance of 15-17 percent it gave at the beginning of the year as the back of COVID-19
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COVID-19 forces SaaS firm Zoho to change tack
Zoho to have more domestic focus and increase remote working locations in rural Tamil Nadu in the coming months
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IT sector gets back to office, and a 'very different' workspace
There is no room for water cooler talks, now that one has to maintain one-metre distance. There is no scope for group lunch breaks either.
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In the post-COVID-19 world, subcontractors could be more in demand
Subcontractors could account for as high as 15 percent depending on the company's business model.
BUSINESS
Long-term immigration reform may be afoot in US to curb H-1B, but will it really help?
Trump’s senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has pointed out how the temporary ban may usher in the broader long-term changes to immigration in the US.
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Coronavirus impact | Freeze in IT/ITeS hiring presents grim picture for engineering graduates
IT firms are the biggest recruiters and account for about 65 percent of total jobs generated.
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H-1B visa aspirants safe for now, but what after 30 days?
While the 30-day review has raised concerns, experts point out that we need to wait and watch.
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Tech workers in critical functions must be treated as essential services: NASSCOM
Some tech workers are involved in critical projects such as powering the critical infrastructure needed in the hospitals during crisis, among others
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US workers unhappy with 60-day ban; say temporary worker ban is the need of the hour
US workers argue temporary visas are not ‘temporary’ as most of them end up staying for a longer period
BUSINESS
In a post COVID-19 world, less business travel could be the new normal
For tech companies, travel constitutes a significant part of their business and could range anywhere from Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 4,000 crore
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Net employee addition in top 3 IT firms declines YoY in FY20
The decline was sharper for Infosys at 40 percent, followed by TCS at 17 percent and Wipro at 3 percent.
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Freshers' training at Infosys goes virtual amid coronavirus pandemic
Back in mid-March, hundreds of trainees from the Mysuru campus were evacuated as a precautionary measure amid the novel coronavirus pandemic
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Infosys to honour 35K offers in FY21; suspends fresh hiring, hikes and promotions
This comes at a time when its peers, TCS and Wipro, said that there will not be any new recruitments for the coming year though the offers will be honoured.
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For better or worse, working from home is likely to be the new normal
Both, Wipro and TCS — the two IT majors which have announced their Q4 result — have more than 90 percent of their employees working from home.
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Growth pangs may continue to haunt TCS in Q3: Experts
Most analysts Moneycontrol spoke to pointed out that growth revival in Q3 is a steep ask.
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Coronavirus pandemic: Wipro to go slow on hiring; defer hikes, promotions
According to reports, the company had hired 12,000 freshers last fiscal and was planning to hire similar numbers in FY21. However, COVID-19 is likely to put a halt to these hiring.
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Q4 results and COVID-19: How did IT firms fare in the 2008 crisis and will it repeat in 2020?
NASSCOM estimates the industry growth to be at 7.7 percent for FY20.
