2020 has made irreversible changes in our lives and businesses. No one could have predicted the disruption that the pandemic has caused. COVID-19 has propelled the field of HR forward reversing some trends, making big shifts, and most significantly creating an opportunity for rethinking and resetting how we design work practices that best serve all […]
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Toyota Kirloskar Motor India Ltd recently notified that two of its employees at the Bidadi manufacturing plant near Bengaluru, have tested positive for COVID-19. The company said that due to health and safety concerns of other employees, it has temporarily suspended operations at the plant. The automaker said in a statement that the two employees […]
After briefly suspending operations at its Chennai factory, Finnish telecom equipment manufacturer, Nokia said that it has resumed operations at the plant with minimum required strength. Earlier last week, the company had suspended operations as 42 of its employees were reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. Although Nokia is allowed to run the factory with 33% […]
Soon after an employee at Maruti Suzuki India’s Manesar plant tested positive for the coronavirus, three employees at Hyundai Motors’ Chennai plant have also tested positive for the virus. The recent development of positive coronavirus cases in workers at two of India’s biggest carmakers comes just days after restarting operations, exposing the risks companies and […]
Just days after reopening its production plant at Manesar, India’s largest automobile manufacturer Maruti Suzuki announced that one of its employees at the plant has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. A company spokesperson informed the media that the company is also looking at “a possibility of a second case” of infection at the plant […]
The novel coronavirus outbreak, which began from Chinese city Wuhan in December, has now infected more than 67,000 people and killed over 1,500 in China alone. With the World Health Organization declaring it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the virus has shut forced the Chinese economy on its knees with many analysts failing […]