Manmohan singh invites Nandan Nilekani to head the National ID Project
By Aditya Mhatre at 23 June, 2009, 1:42 am
As promised, the UPA governement is going ahead with the National identity card project and are trying to the get the most influential mind to work on it. The project intends to provide each Indian with a National Identity card and replace the various kind of identiy cards that are currently being used [...]
Read More >>Infosys announces Rs.50 lakh science award
By Aditya Mhatre at 17 February, 2009, 8:50 am
Infosys announced that it will be setting up an “Infosys Science Foundation” to promote and highlight the achievement of Indians across various sciences. The non-profit organization was set up by founders of Infosys as well as Infosys Technologies itself with a corpus of Rs. 21.5 crores.
The plan is to reward Indians for significant work [...]
Infosys to cut variable pay?
By Aditya Mhatre at 3 February, 2009, 4:22 am
After putting around 5000 people on the watch list, Infosys has reportedly issued warned that it may cut employee bonuses and the variable pay components from the compensation packages. Usually the varibale pay is a component of every employees salary strcuture and in many cases (if not all) the largest portion of the salary. [...]
Read More >>Infosys planning lay-offs?
By Aditya Mhatre at 28 January, 2009, 5:09 am
In a post earlier today, I wrote about the job cuts in the US and had speculated that cuts in Indian IT outsourcing firms might not be far away. Infosys has already announced that it would be placing around 5% of its work force under the scanner (whatever that means). Infosys currently employs around 1,00,000 [...]
Read More >>Infosys not to hire Satyam employees
By Aditya Mhatre at 9 January, 2009, 3:56 am
Infosys has reportedly asked its HR to refrain from hiring Satyam employees. I think it is important for companies like Infosys to be a bit more sensitive towards the Satyam employees who to say the least had no idea about how this week would change their lives.
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