Let 2022 be the year of sharing burden: Stressed mothers can use help in household choresMental load has been defined as the combination of cognitive labour and emotional labour.
07 Jan, 2022, 04.45 PM IST
No going back to the five-day WFO! For staff and managers alike, WFH yields better performance, shows new studyThe proportion of staff teleworking at least one day a week is expected to be much higher than before the pandemic.
20 Dec, 2021, 06.40 PM IST
Overall hiring has touched pre-pandemic level: IndeedJob postings for IT tech software roles saw a 19 per cent increase between July 2020 and July 2021 as an expected outcome of the pandemic-i...
30 Aug, 2021, 05.46 PM IST
Unscrambling signal from Jackson holeThere are a couple of riders, however. One is Covid. If the Delta variant stages a surge to form another wave of infection, lockdown and de...
29 Aug, 2021, 11.55 PM IST
UK holidaymakers could face 5,000 pound fine under new COVID lawAs Britain marked the one-year mark of its first stay-at-home lockdown on Tuesday, details emerged of new laws to control the spread of inf...
23 Mar, 2021, 08.42 PM IST
Mondelez to foot bill for in-house nannyThe pandemic has been a challenging time, especially for those who’ve recently entered parenthood. With daycares not fully functional, mana...
16 Mar, 2021, 11.15 AM IST
WFH Stories | Working women want to return to office, nowWhile work from home (WFH) has its own benefits, the stress of multi-tasking—switching identities every 15 minutes from a professional to a...
13 Mar, 2021, 09.05 AM IST
Females lag in recovering lost job post pandemicMoreover the impact The impact on female employment was relatively more severe in the urban region. The female labour participation rate-FL...
08 Mar, 2021, 05.08 PM IST
The very real problem of "she-cession" and what Nirmala Sitharaman can do to undo itAlmost 17 million women lost their jobs in the first month of lockdown alone, data released by the CMIE showed.
18 Jan, 2021, 11.56 AM IST
Provide facilities for online classes to children in care homes, Supreme Court directs statesA bench led by Justice L. Nageswara Rao also ordered all the states to provide '2,000 per month to children sent back to their guardians du...
16 Dec, 2020, 07.12 AM IST
PM Boris Johnson locks down England as COVID-19 surgesUnder the new measures, which will be effective until December 2, people in England will only be allowed to leave their homes for specific ...
01 Nov, 2020, 09.31 AM IST
Ireland is first EU country to re-enter lockdownIreland will be the first EU country to return to coronavirus lockdown, prime minister Micheal Martin said on Monday, issuing a nationwide ...
20 Oct, 2020, 09.27 AM IST
As pandemic continues to rage, hiring recovers, gender parity improves with female workforce up from 30% in April to 37% by July-endHiring picked up by 25 percentage points by end of July as compared to June.
29 Sep, 2020, 05.02 PM IST
Back in office, The Body Shop India CEO says firms need to be flexible, empathetic with staffShriti Malhotra feels it is crucial to put people first, not short-term financial gains.
08 Sep, 2020, 08.37 AM IST
22 million children from South Asia missed out on early childhood education due to COVID-19: UNICEFIn the South Asia region, the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) covered Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Mal...
22 Jul, 2020, 08.11 PM IST
India's hiring activities holding up better than many economies: ReportIndia has been holding up better in hiring than other economies amid the COVID-19 pandemic .
29 Jun, 2020, 09.37 PM IST
Global cos pledge not to lay off staffA no. of global companies - with a large presence in India have assured employees that there will be no or insignificant layoffs while the ...
04 Apr, 2020, 11.30 AM IST