HR News; 05 Dec, 2016

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Mercer acquires an employee engagement specialist Sirota Consulting

The acquisition builds upon Mercer’s consulting strength and capabilities in talent management and reinforces its commitment to employee engagement. 

Mercer, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., has acquired Sirota Consulting LLC (Sirota), an employee engagement solutions company that offers the full breadth of organisational assessments, surveys, technology and analytics. The acquisition builds upon Mercer’s consulting strength and capabilities in talent management, and reinforces its commitment to employee engagement.

Sirota, a well-established global brand with over 40 years of experience, conducts surveys with over one million employees annually across 130 countries and 80 languages. With organisational research, Sirota’s advisory capabilities and technologies span across engagement, team effectiveness, leadership and culture. Combined with sophisticated analytics and data mining tools, Sirota’s surveys offer clients real-time insight from engagement data. It then uses advanced analytics to help HR identify where leaders, employees, strategy and culture are misaligned, uncovering hidden factors that drive performance and support positive change.

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Aasaanjobs forays into Recruitment Process Outsourcing

The company wants to serve corporate players looking for high-volume and perennial hiring.

Aasaanjobs, the online recruitment marketplace, which connects entry-level job seekers with employers, entered into the bustling recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) segment. With this expansion, the company wants to serve corporate players looking for high-volume and perennial hiring.

Siddharth Gupta, VP-sales & marketing, Aasaanjobs.com stated that the move is a consequence of the realisation of the growing trend of RPO over the last couple of years. “With our team of 50+ skilled recruiters from various industries, I think that the top corporates, especially from the BFSI or IT sector, who hire in volume, will find our RPO solutions an extremely valuable proposition,” he said.

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Amazon worker attempts suicide, jumps off company’s 12-storey building.

He had apparently sent an e-mail to hundreds of co-workers, including the chief executive officer, before the incident occurred.

In what may apparently be a suicide attempt, an Amazon Inc. employee was injured after jumping off a building at the company’s Seattle headquarters, at about 8:45 a.m. local time on Monday, 29 November. The man wasn’t identified by the authorities, although he had apparently sent an e-mail visible to hundreds of co-workers, including chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos, before taking this extreme step.

The man survived the fall from Amazon’s 12-storey Apollo building and was taken to a Seattle hospital. He had reportedly put in a request for transfer to a different department, but was placed on an employee improvement plan instead — a step that can lead to termination if performance isn’t improved.

In the e-mail, the man criticised the manner in which the company handled his transfer request, and hinted that he might harm himself.

More than 20,000 people work in multiple buildings at Amazon’s headquarters. The company told the media that it is concerned about the recovery of the employee and is ensuring he receives the best care possible for a speedy recovery.