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Infosys to launch Teach@Infosys program

Posted on September 6, 2013 by ruchijain44

BANGALORE: Come Teachers’ Day and Infoscions across campuses will turn teachers for their colleagues. They can choose from a variety of classes to attend: Composing music, making ‘unbelievably awesome’ presentations, chess, basketball, dance, salsa, cooking, Hindustani and Carnatic music, martial arts and mehndi designs, to name a few.

The IT giant is launching ‘Teach@Infosys’ for its employees to create a culture of collective learning. Every employee can share their expertise on a subject with fellow Infoscions. This programme has a blend of technical and non-technical courses ranging from how to build an app or understand the big data field to public speaking or even a course on photography.

More than 1,100 employees have registered to teach others.

A batch of 534 colleague-students will join ‘creative advertising’ class conducted by Nand Kumar, consultant, industry solutions group, retail CPG and logistics, at Infosys. “My colleagues will learn about some of the marketing disasters, the need of creativity and best practices in techniques of creative visual advertising. People from different countries will join in too. I have specialized in ‘marketing advertising’ and always wanted to share with my colleagues some tips I learnt during MBA degree,” said Nand.

Rashmi Kashyap, manager, information security at Infosys, will take up the ladle and not laptop for a change. “Cooking has been my passion. It’s just a mental block that keeps people away from it. Since many employees are youngsters and away from home, I will share bachelor recipes. I will also look at various festival recipes, the Ganesh festival to start with,” she said.

The employees will also have a session on ‘arts and science of mobile app development’ by Anubhav Pradhan, principal, education and research. “It will be useful in understanding the mobile business pattern and the problems one faces in mobile app development. Around 600 employees have registered for the session,” said the Infoscion.

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HYDERABAD: Pune-based IT player Zensar Technologies Limited chief executive officer Ganesh Natarajan on Monday said the ailing Indian economy will force the IT companies to stay focused on the traditional IT markets such as US and Europe and avoid the domestic market for some time.
“A falling Rupee is a deterrent. There has been very poor decision making in the country. No body is going to look at the domestic market till the economy stabilises. IT companies will focus on the traditional markets – US and Europe,” Zensar Technologies Limited chief executive officer Ganesh Natarajan said while speaking at the sidelines of the IT and ITeS Industry Association of Andhra Pradesh (ITsAP) HR summit here.
On being asked about the IT industry growth in this fiscal, Natarajan said the 13% – 14% growth that has been predicted by IT-body Nasscom was achievable.
“Compared to last year, the situation is much better. There is lot of opportunity as US, UK and Europe markets are in much better shape,” he said.
Meanwhile, speaking about the company’s future plans, Natarajan said, the company has appointed an investment banker to scout for acquisition opportunities in areas such as SAP or digital enterprises and the company is looking at a deal size between $25 million to $75 million.
However, he added that the company has not found the ‘right’ target yet but Zensar’s growth will continue even if an acquisition does not take place.
Speaking about the company’s hiring plans, Natarajan said, Zensar will be hiring close to 400 engineers and 150 non-engineers this fiscal.

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In a last-ditch effort to catch the mobile-device wave that Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) are riding, Microsoft is making a $7.2 billion bet on Finnish phone company Nokia.
Several analysts said the agreement announced late Monday to buy most of Nokia makes sense for the Redmond, Wash., corporation. Given time and Microsoft’s enormous financial reserves, they said, the deal could pose a serious threat to other

gadget makers, especially Apple, which has seen its sales slow and reputation for innovation questioned.
“The idea that Nokia is going to have reserves that eclipse Apple’s would certainly concern me if I were Tim Cook,” said tech analyst Rob Enderle, referring to the Cupertino company’s CEO.
Microsoft will be diving into a hardware business dominated by Apple and phone makers using Google’s Android operating system. Together, they control more than 90 percent of the smartphone market. But Microsoft is a tech titan in its own right, with nearly $80 billion in annual sales, the widely popular Internet communications service Skype, and software that runs millions of personal computers.
Under the deal, which is expected to be completed in the first quarter of next year pending approval by Nokia’s shareholders, Microsoft will buy the Finnish company’s phone business and license its patents. That should be a good fit for Microsoft, some analysts believe, because Nokia’s phones already use Windows. Moreover, they said, it will allow Microsoft to control the production of those phones from beginning to end, emulating how Apple makes its mobile gadgets.
Still, experts said it could take years for Microsoft to significantly boost Nokia’s sales. Moreover, some cautioned that the deal could worsen Microsoft’s relationship with companies like Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), because it would pit Microsoft’s devices against those from HP and other firms that use Microsoft’s Windows software in their products.

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Google known for its work culture that includes doses of free perks recently conducted an experiment to analyse the snacking habits of its employees.

Google realized that its workers were eating too much of the free candies and food which needed to be replaced with healthier alternatives at arm’s reach.
The company conducted surveys of snacking patterns through the M&M project, collected data on the proximity of M&M bins to any given employee and conducted experiments by placing sugary foods in opaque containers and healthier snacks in glass jars.
According to the Washington Post, the search giant is known to analyse every corner of its workplace to ensure more productivity and better results.

However, some analysts question whether the free meals, napping stations and inexpensive massages make people stay in the office longer, perpetuating a work-obsessed culture that has eaten into family life and community.

While others said that with such experiments Google is trying to signal that it cares about it employees’ health and its efforts are welcomed by the new employees.

Other than the candy munching habit, Google also tried to promote drinking more water by placing bottled water on eye-level shelves and behind clear glass while putting sugary sodas on the bottom shelves of refrigerators and behind frosted glass which resulted in 47 per cent increase in water consumption after several weeks, reducing the sugary intake by 7 per cent.

Wipro to hire 500 people

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MUMBAI: Country’s third largest software services firm Wipro said it was planning to strengthen its presence in the Nordic region by adding 500 people over the next three years.
According to sources, Wipro has about 500 people as part of its Nordic operations.
The company has also appointed Carl-Henrik Hallstrom as the regional head for Nordic region, Wipro said in a statement.
He will be based in Stockholm, Sweden and report to Rajat Mathur, chief sales and operations officer (growth markets) at Wipro.
In his previous role, Hallstrom was associated with KPMG, Sweden. He has also worked with EquaTerra (which was acquired by KPMG later), Fujitsu Services, Daltek (publ) and Tandberg.


“Nordics is poised to become one of the more important growth markets for Wipro and we are committed to investing in the region. I am confident that Hallstrom will be able to build on the growth momentum in the region,” Mathur said.
The European market contributed 29 per cent to the company’s revenues in the April-June 2013 quarter. The company does not provide region-specific numbers.
Wipro’s focus in the region will be on key verticals like telecom, manufacturing, and energy

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Will You Be Fired Next? Hopes on hold as job crunch hits Indian markets




Pradeep Chatterjee (name changed), 32, a senior correspondent with a media company in Mumbai, had everything going for him-a job he liked, a decent salary, and a new two-bedroom flat in Borivali overlooking the school where his eight-year-old son studied. But earlier this month, there were rumours that his firm was laying off at least 300 people, including several in the online team he worked with. On August 23, Chatterjee's worst fears came true. The HR head handed him and 44 of his colleagues the pink slip, along with two months' salary. As Chatterjee got into a final emotional huddle with his other 'sacked' colleagues, he could no longer hold back the tears. "I wouldn't have felt so devastated had I been thrown out for poor performance," he said.

Chatterjee is just one among hundreds of media professionals who have lost their jobs over the last two months, and joins thousands across various sectors such as automobiles, infrastructure, banking, and engineering as India nosedives into a dangerous vortex of economic malaise. The proportion of Indian workers gainfully employed slipped to 35.4 per cent in 2011-12, compared to 36.5 per cent in 2009-10, the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) said in June. This is a sizeable fall from an employment rate of 42 per cent in 2004-05, when the UPA government came to power for the first time.

Consultants say that if things keep moving in the direction they are, job losses across the country would touch 500,000 in 2013-14, similar to the levels at the time of the financial meltdown in 2008-09. India has lost five million jobs overall in the fiveyear period 2005-2010, the Planning Commission said in March this year, while only 2.76 million jobs were added. A hiring outlook survey by Naukri.com in July revealed a muted hiring sentiment for the remaining half of 2013 compared to what it was at the beginning of the year, with only 43 per cent of recruiters forecasting new job creation in the year's second half. "The economy is certainly not in the best of shape," says Ambarish Raghuvanshi, CFO, Naukri.com, part of Info Edge India.

"The hiring confidence can't overlook these parameters and hence reflects the slowdown." The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey for the third quarter (July-September) for 2013 said employers in India reported the weakest hiring outlook in eight years in the Asia-Pacific region. An estimated 4.5 million enter the Indian job market every year-750,000 engineers, 500,000 MBAs and at least three million other graduates.

"Given an evident slowdown in manufacturing and exports, the employment outlook by companies certainly looks weak,"  says Naina Lal Kidwai, president, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and country head, HSBC India. "FICCI's Business Confidence Survey for the last quarter of financial year 2013 has reported bleak employment prospects vis-a-vis a year ago. A majority 65 per cent of the participants indicated no fresh hiring over the first two quarters of fiscal year (FY) 2013-14," she adds.

The situation seems worse off than 2008, when Indian companies were relatively unaffected and proceeded with expansions and overseas acquisitions. "The mood is unlikely to change, till the global and local macro economic issues play out," says Sonal Agrawal, CEO of Accord Group India, an executive search firm. "The 2008 slowdown was a global phenomenon, with its roots in the US. But Western economies are now reviving," adds E. Balaji, an HR expert and former CEO of manpower consultancy Randstad India.

That means the current crisis is a local creation in which India can hardly blame anyone else.


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