1.
Mercer to acquire Thomsons Online Benefits
Thomsons is a SaaS provider of global employee benefits and employee
engagement software. Its platform, Darwin™ for automated employee benefits
administration has over 1 million worldwide users
Mercer,
a global consulting player in talent, health, retirement and investments, which
helps organisations around the world advance the health, wealth and careers of
their employees is all set to acquire Thomsons Online Benefits.
Thomsons
is a SaaS provider of global employee benefits and employee engagement
software. Its platform, Darwin™ for automated employee benefits administration
has over one million users worldwide. It connects employees with their benefits
in over 80 countries and 24 languages.
This
is Mercer’s second acquisition in December, 2016. It recently acquired Sirota
Consulting, a global provider of employee engagement solutions that offers the
full breadth of organisational assessments, surveys, technology and analytics.
With
this acquisition, Mercer and Thomsons will combine world-class consulting and
broking with innovative technology to transform the way benefits are designed,
communicated and administered. This will offer companies and employees a
unique, market-leading global and local benefit experience.
The
joint entity hopes to transform the way benefits are designed, communicated and
administered.
2.
Ex-employees of
Disney sued the company for hiring Indians
These former IT employees filed a lawsuit in Florida claiming
that the company had discriminated against them by firing them and replacing
them with Indians.
In a globalised world
today, it may be hard to believe that there’s some talent discrimination in the
name of region and race. However, proving that possible, a group of former IT
employees from Disney, filed a fresh lawsuit in Florida.
A group of 30 former
IT workers who filed the suit in an Orlando federal court this week, claimed
that the company had discriminated against them by firing them and giving their
jobs to Indian workers brought to the country on H-1B visas
The class-action
suit, that was filed early this week, accuses Disney of laying off information
technology workers “based solely on their national origin and race” and
replacing them with Indian nationals who received “special treatment”.
As per the suit, the
workers felt even more insulted on being forced to train their replacements.
Disney had apparently informed 250 Orlando IT workers in October 2014 that they
would be laid off within 90 days.
Reportedly the
company even brought in quick replacements, all of Indian origin — some of whom
work remotely, while others entered the US on H-1B visas.
3.
AI-based HR Analytics platform Infeedo gets
funded on a TV reality show.
The AI-based HR analytics platform agreed to give away 5 per cent
equity to the team formed by Ameera Shah, managing director and CEO, Metropolis
Healthcare, and Vivek Bhargava, CEO, iProspect.
Infeedo, a SaaS-based
HR analytics platform has received an investment of Rs 50 lakh on a television
reality show.
In the reality show,
The Vault, Infeedo agreed to give away 5 per cent equity to the team comprising
Ameera Shah, managing director and CEO, Metropolis Healthcare, and Vivek
Bhargava, CEO, iProspect.
An AI-based platform,
Infeedo allows employees to place anonymous queries to their CEO in a virtual
town hall. It also enables employees to share ideas on an idea-generation
platform. Frequent communication with the employees and creation of a company
culture report based on these interactions is what Infeedo does.
Infeedo also claims
to predict employee attrition through artificial intelligence. It already has
an impressive list of new-age clients, such as MakeMyTrip, Faasos, Lava Mobiles
and PayUMoney.
The Vault is an
investment platform cum television show open to the student community, rural
and household ventures, startups, and budding entrepreneurs seeking funds for
their business ideas.
The televised series
gives promising entrepreneurs an opportunity to pitch their ideas to a panel of
investors and possibly get funded on the spot, while the nation watches them in
their moment of glory.
The show also provides
expert advice from industry veterans, incubation programmes and mentorship
opportunities.
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