Employees

Work Less, Get More: Are work days getting shorter?

A smaller number of employees are working overtime hours, and the length of the typical workday has decreased by 37 minutes in 2022, according to a new study. This could be a sign that managers in the post-COVID-19 era are becoming more conscious of work-life balance

Groups of Tesla employees secretly share sensitive images recorded by customers' car cameras

Several of the clips showed Tesla consumers in awkward circumstances. One ex-employee recounted a video of a nude man approaching a car

Hiring or Not? What are ghost jobs, the work trend that employees must be wary of?

Applied for a job and didn't hear back? It might be a ghost job. These are postings that have been up online for long, but companies have no intention to fill them. While recruiters have their reasons for such listing, they are a menace for job seekers

Explained: Should India’s salaried class opt for EPFO’s higher pension option?

The Employee Provident Fund Organisation, the government retirement fund body, has issued new rules under which members as on 1 September 2014 can go beyond the pensionable salary capped at Rs 15,000 per month. However, does this come with a trade off?

'It's unjust': The uproar over Wipro's 50% salary cut to freshers

Wipro, the IT company headquartered in Bengaluru, reached out to freshers to whom it had earlier rolled out an offer of Rs 6.5 lakh per annum, and asked them if an offer of Rs 3.5 would be acceptable

Light of Day: Cambridge study finds four-day week makes companies more profitable, keeps employees happy

The study showed that the majority of the companies reported better outcomes both in terms of financial gain and productivity. Stress and burnout declined by 71 per cent

Zoom to slash jobs for nearly 1,300 employees, CEO will take 98 per cent pay cut

Zoom's Chief Executive Officer Eric Yuan stated that he and other executives will take a significant pay cut. In the message to employees, he admitted to making 'mistakes' in how quickly the company grew during the pandemic

Explained: Why is Microsoft laying off thousands of more employees from today?

According to media reports, Microsoft may announce layoffs in its engineering divisions. The job-slashing plan is the largest among recent layoffs that have impacted the once-unassailable US tech sector

What is rage-applying, the new workplace trend helping Gen Z get ‘big raises’?

Quiet quitting is so 2022. The new workplace trend is rage-applying. It involves channelling your anger towards your job into sending out rèsumès to multiple companies to find a new role and get a hefty salary hike quickly

Will recession put an end to work from home in 2023?

A shortage of labour gave employees more say in the last two years, but this could change in 2023 as a recession looms large. If companies have the upper hand will they arm-twist their workers into returning to the office full-time? Will we see remote work privileges being curtailed?