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Bombay HC allows maternity benefits for third child
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After easing of WFH rules, India Inc continues to innovate ahead
The pandemic has been the biggest disruptor of this century and this move by the government can be a gamechanger for the IT and BPO industry, positioning India as a global outsourcing hub leading to job creation beyond the metros.
The changes will enable companies to attract talent from anywhere, reduce costs of operations while also accelerate development and use of new human resources, marketing, sales, business development and other practices to ensure high productivity.
UAE relaxes Islamic laws, allows cohabitation of unmarried couples
Another amendment allows for cohabitation of unmarried couples, which has long been a crime in the UAE.
Authorities, especially in the more free-wheeling financial hub of Dubai, tend to look the other way when it comes to foreigners, but the threat of punishment still lingered for such behavior.
Saudi Arabia to remove curbs on foreign workers to attract overseas talent
The new rules will come into effect on March 14 and apply to all foreign workers in the private sector, regardless of salary, he said.
Microsoft Teams platform reaches 115mn daily active users: Nadella
The video collaboration platform has added over 100 new capabilities in the last six months, including breakout rooms, meeting recaps, shift scheduling, and large scale digital events up to 20,000 participants, to help people transcend both time and distance.
“We are adding reimagined workspaces in Teams for every collaborator, remote, in-person, or on the go, and we’re accelerating our innovation for both first-line and knowledge workers,” Nadella stressed.
New insights in Teams provide personalised recommended actions, making it easier for employees to create healthy work habits and for leaders to build high-performing teams.
Pandemic speeds labour shift from humans to robots, WEF survey finds
“COVID-19 has accelerated the arrival of the future of work,” WEF Managing Director Saadia Zahidi said.
COVID-19 prompts workers, corporates to adopt gig economy
Experts believe that gig economy provides a win-win situation for both parties and its reach is slowly expanding from less-skilled services to high-skilled jobs.
“Gig economy has been there for a long time. It’s being embraced like never before, that too in India, due to both economic conditions and COVID-19 situation,” said Kaushik Banerjee, Vice President and Business Head of Teamlease.com and Freshersworld.com.
Most executives in India prefer continuing with remote working: Survey
“Seventy-four per cent of India”s executives said their business continues to use offline workflows, the lowest among all other countries surveyed (US 89 per cent, UK 98 per cent, Australia 98 per cent),” said ServiceNow Managing Director (India and SAARC) Arun Balasubramanian.
The survey was conducted during September 1-10 among 900 C-suite executives and 8,100 office professionals from companies of 500 or more employees in countries including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, India, Japan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
In India, The Work Survey was conducted amoung 100 C-suite leaders and 1,000 employees from various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications and public sector.
Nearly nine of 10 workers want to keep work-from-home option: survey
Cisco Vice President Gordon Thomson said companies would have to reconfigure how they operate to help meet the new demands of workers, who prioritised effective communication and collaboration above everything else.
Lloyd’s headquarters to be transformed into a workplace for the future:CEO
“The Lloyd’s building is almost 35 years old, so how can it be the right environment for the market to operate?For the first time, we have both a virtual capability and a real capability operating simultaneously at Lloyd’s. We’ve also set some ideas on the table to metaphorically rip up the underwriting room and decide what it should look like in the 21st century, and what the marketplace should look like in the 21st century,” said Neal while speaking at a Virtual Reinsurance Renewal Season fireside chats.hosted by Dominic Christian, global chairman of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions,
Asia Pacific health care benefit cost expected to jump by 8.5% in 2021, Willis Towers Watson survey
The 2021 Global Medical Trends Survey, the largest of its kind, found that medical insurers in APAC project health care benefit costs will take a sudden drop in 2020 before rebounding to 8.5% in 2021, up from 6.2% this year and 7.5% in 2019.
Markets including China (9.3%), India (10%), Indonesia (12%), Malaysia (12.5%), New Zealand (20%), Philippines (8.8%), Singapore (8.2%), Thailand (8%) and Vietnam (10.2%) will see an increase in excess of 8% next year.
According to the study, cancer (79%), cardiovascular diseases (76%), and conditions affecting musculoskeletal and connective tissue (42%) are the top three conditions currently affecting medical costs in APAC, with cancer and cardiovascular diseases expected to remain so in the near future.