Sandeep is a journalism and mass communication graduate with a keen interest in politics and business. He is a part of Research & Content team at HrNxt.com.
It doesn’t seem that their troubles are getting over soon. In the past few months, OYO has managed to gather a different spotlight on itself with a New York Times report on its toxic work-culture, IT raids at their Gurugram headquarters and death of a sportsperson in one of their properties last year. Adding to troubles, came the firing of thousands of its employees from China and India business.
If someday, someone gives you $9k to spend it the way you want to, will it improve your happiness? For some people, it might, but we can’t be sure of everyone. That’s what a Japanese Billionaire is trying to find out. Japanese fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa will give away more than $9mn to 1,000 people…
Financial literacy is the education and understanding of various financial areas including topics related to managing personal finance, money and investing. It includes the knowledge of making appropriate decisions about personal finance such as investing, insurance, real estate, paying for college, budgeting, retirement and tax planning.
After violence broke out inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University yesterday with masked goons barging into the campus, several businessmen and corporate leaders took to Twitter addressing their concerns on safety inside educational establishments and universities. Among these business leaders were industrialists Anand Mahindra,Harsh Mariwala, Apurva Purohit and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw who called for strict action…
In the passing decade, we witnessed lots of changes in the way organizations function. With the change in the nature of businesses, setting up new businesses, the increasing role of technology, changing talent needs, demands and expectations, approaches to information sharing, etc., the traditional organization structures have given way to newer structures. Designations were traditionally…
Predictions are that 2020 will be a different game altogether for workplaces with different generations working simultaneously in an organization. Elder Generation or Baby Boomers are due for retirement, Gen Xers are eyeing on the leadership roles, millennials are stepping up for senior-level positions and Gen Zers are getting started in this decade. Each of these generations has different expectations related to work and workplaces. Recognizing these expectations and shaping up the workplaces, people processes, business processes to ensure that the cross-generational teams thrive and deliver is crucial for any organization’s success.
Women have come a long way since the industrial revolution. From taking their husband’s and brother’s place in the workforce during the world war to becoming CEOs of big corporations, women have proved their worth at workplaces. But their inclusion in the workforce at desirable numbers as compared to men is still a far fetched dream. According to the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020, gender parity is still 99.5 years away.
The analysis presented in the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 is based on a methodology integrating the latest statistics from international organizations and a survey of executives.
The report highlights the gender differences in salaries, managerial position and education. The report states that “none of us will see gender parity in our lifetimes, nor likely will many of our children.”
We all at some point in our lives have got an email from an employer with an offer too good to be true. The employer promises us a fairly good amount of salary, accommodation, a car and if you’re lucky, you might also get a driver to take you around the city. The offer itself is so tempting that we never realize there might be a catch. Often fresh job seekers face a challenge of staying away from such fake job offers and preventing themselves from getting conned by scammers who make money by preying on their desperation and insecurity.
Many studies have pointed out that the “Always On” work environment reduces productivity of an employee, increases stress and jeopardizes their personal life. This has led to many problems for the employees, like depression, anxiety disorder, etc.
In India about 1.2 crore people enter the workforce every year but the pace of job creation remains far below than what is needed, even though the economy is growing at over 7 percent.
Remember the time when your boss caught you taking a power nap during work hours and in punishment, you had to sit down for overtime? Yes, we all hate it. It wasn’t your fault that the pressure and tiredness made you take a nap. Your daily routine of getting fewer sleep hours and fatigue takes a toll on your body which directly affects your work performance.