1.
Amazon to
spend $ 500 million as employee holiday bonus
Amazon will pay its packers
and deliverymen a one-time bonus for the holiday season. Amazon.com will pay
its employees— who pack and deliver goods — a one-time bonus of up to $ 300.
This move comes at a time when the company faces a labour union drive and
criticism for rolling back its pandemic hazard pay. Full-time workers are set
to receive $ 300 and part timers $ 150 if they remain employed for the entire
month of December at Amazon. This amount will cumulate to $500 million. Amazon
had ended its $ 2 an hour shifts for its warehouse workers in May and also paid
a one-time bonus of as much as $ 500 in June. The bonuses were stopped as a
result of Amazon facing an economic upheaval due to the pandemic.
2.
Virtual career fair, WiT
Ignite, offers over 2000 roles only for women
The
fair, which is probably Asia’s largest virtual fair, saw more than 30,000
participants. Attended by more than 44
leading employers including Optum, Microsoft, Facebook, Sapient, Walmart Global
Tech India, Unilever, Pega, Qualcomm, DBS Bank, Axis Bank, Novartis, Jubilant,
Bajaj Allianz and Onmobile. Women in Technology (WiT) India’s virtual job fair,
Ignite, saw more than 44 leading employers and over 30,000 women job seekers
participating. This is deemed Asia’s largest virtual career fair ever hosted,
and is also India’s first virtual career fair for women in science, technology,
engineering or Math (STEM) fields. Over 45 per cent of the total number of job
seekers belonged to Tier-2 and smaller cities, while over 75 per cent had prior
work experience. Over 23 per cent belonged to the 21-24 years age group. All
candidates were offered the opportunity to attend specially-curated webinars
and masterclasses to help them prepare for the interviews in the weeks leading up
to the event. With Microsoft as the exclusive learning partner, the
participants also had the chance to join advanced certification courses for
free and try to fast-track their career. Almost 1200 one-on-one interviews were
conducted during the daylong virtual fair.
3.
Flipkart
commits to taking forward the D&I agenda
The
Company intends to concentrate on inclusion, entrepreneurship and
sustainability in the next one decade. The second edition of #include, the
Indian e-commerce company, Flipkart’s annual event, witnessed prominent
industry leaders throwing light on their biggest learnings, challenges and
opportunities from the previous year. Krishna Raghavan, CPO, Flipkar, revealed
the Company’s intention to focus on “inclusion, entrepreneurship and sustainability”
in the next ten years. Understanding the importance of “inclusion, as a
prerequisite for building a diverse ecosystem,” Flipkart plans to try and
nurture “a culture of inclusion where diverse talent can innovate and excel”.
In addition to building sustainable business practices, Flipkart will also try
to expand its talent pool. One common point that everyone agreed on was that
diversity and inclusion cannot be “restricted to a dialogue”. Each organisation
will have to create programmes that will actively contribute to the D&I
agenda, by ensuring that all policy making revolves around it.
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