Cognizant to lay off around 3,500 employees as part of rejig programmeLayoffs at Cognizant follow that of Accenture, which in April announced that 19,000 employees would be let go globally.
05 May, 2023, 12.31 PM IST
Former Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries was involuntarily terminated: FilingThe statement said that its relative total shareholder return (TSR) performance had not met expectations leading to the decision to change ...
26 Apr, 2023, 11.44 AM IST
Top IT firms Infosys, Wipro keen on bringing employees back to officeAs the Omicron wave of Covid-19 wanes, companies such as Wipro, Infosys and Cognizant have come to accept that the hybrid model will contin...
11 Feb, 2022, 12.23 PM IST
India Inc is gradually switching back to working from officeMost companies reverted to work-from-home mode for non-essential staff as Omicron cases swept through the country. On Monday, for the first...
10 Feb, 2022, 08.05 AM IST
Third wave fears darken India Inc’s road back to office“There is no clarity on how the third wave will impact, how soon restrictions will be lifted, and when we can have the majority of our work...
22 Jul, 2021, 03.33 PM IST
Cognizant aims for phased return to office in a 'measured way', based on business criticalityThe company said only those who are delivering services “that cannot be delivered remotely because of high dependence on office infrastruct...
21 Jul, 2020, 09.38 AM IST
Cyberattack on Cognizant hit corporate credit cards’ infoThese cards were issued to its employees. Cognizant has roped in the FBI to investigate who carried out the attack.
22 Jun, 2020, 10.28 AM IST
Cybersecurity hiring turning into top priority for cos: Staffing firmsAs companies continue the remote-work model and look to improve the security of their networks, demand for cybersecurity roles is on the up...
12 May, 2020, 10.27 PM IST
IT campuses will never be the same: How India’s 4 million IT workers shifted to working from home overnightIT companies had to move desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes as they could not procure laptops in multipl...
22 Apr, 2020, 02.16 PM IST
Over 3,000 US employees file class action suit against CognizantThis is a fallout of Cognizant’s announcement in October that about 6,000 of its employees in the content moderation business for Facebook ...
16 Mar, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
India Inc counts on apps to take care of unfit employeesFirms are making physical fitness a priority like never before and increasingly taking the app route to help staff.
03 Sep, 2019, 10.40 AM IST
Leading IT companies say beefed up security but no data breachWhen contacted, Infosys in an emailed statement said the company has not observed any breach of its network based on its monitoring and thr...
20 Apr, 2019, 07.36 PM IST
IT companies tighten costs, hire less experienced staffTo retain margins, IT cos are increasing proportion of fixed cost projects in revenue, tightening costs and recruiting more freshers, less ...
11 May, 2017, 11.18 AM IST
Chennai rains: Software, automobile companies like TCS, Cognizant, Nissan affectedSoftware exporters running a big portion of their technology development and delivery from Chennai kept critical resources in their offices...
02 Dec, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
Chennai rains leave Tech Inc marooned; firms like IBM, Cognizant, Infosys enforce contingency plans, relocate key staffMore unusually, especially in an otherwise parched Chennai, companies had to set up makeshift camps in their offices with mattresses and te...
25 Nov, 2015, 09.17 PM IST
Cognizant bags IT deal from Germany's Vorwerk GroupVorwerk, an international direct-sales company, has subsidiaries in 24 countries with revenues of over $3.2 billion.
24 Oct, 2014, 01.52 PM IST
SMAC: Combining technologies is the next big infotech revolutionAlthough the company coined the acronym widely used in the industry, Cognizant was not expecting big revenues quickly from SMAC.It is set t...
28 Dec, 2013, 08.50 AM IST