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HR has its work cut out in 2021: Focus on privacy, return-to-office steps, and keeping employee morale in place

While HR leaders are now focusing on keeping employees engaged and productive in these times, there are a number of trends to be prepared f...

Memories: What 2020 meant for business leaders and other prominent personalities

As the year draws to a close, ET Magazine reached out to a cross-section of people — politicians and bureaucrats, diplomats and CEOs, activ...

BJP remained busy trying to topple Maharashtra govt: Uddhav Thackeray

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said the agitation no longer remains a farmers' movement as it has been "infiltrated by Leftist and...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad says pandemic raising violence, trafficking of women

The 27-year-old activist, who was forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, said curfews, lockdowns and travel restrict...

Amid global disruption, employee skill development is key for organisations looking to stay competitive: Study

An IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study, titled “Accelerating the Journey to HR 3.0,” reveals that CHROs overwhelmingly agree that ...

Biden’s China policy? A balancing act for a toxic relationship

The hard choices for Biden will include deciding whether to maintain about $360 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports that have raise...

Joe Biden urged to work with business, China to protect SE Asia rainforest

Joe Biden's election as the next U.S. leader, replacing climate-change sceptic Donald Trump, has raised expectations that protecting Southe...

ET Evoke: Empowering women via employment boosts nation’s GDP & company’s profitability, says IMF HR boss

Kalpana Kochhar feels the pandemic threatens to roll back gains in women’s economic opportunities.

Israel to start human trials of COVID-19 vaccine on November 1

The committee is mandated to ensure the well being and rights of trial volunteers and to ensure that the experiment is conducted as per the...

View: Pulling out the Tanishq advertisement wasn’t cowardly; having it aired at all showed corporate courage

Liberals have since expressed their indignation with the Tatas. They say the Tatas should not have been cowed down by threats of violence. ...

Hundreds of Indian workers demand unpaid wages from Saudi construction firm

More than 280 labourers - who were fired by the Nasser S Al Hajri Corporation before being flown home on chartered flights in July - are pa...

Hundreds of thousands of people shackled for mental health issues globally, Human Rights Watch says

In the run-up to World Mental Health Day on Oct. 10, the report documents almost 800 interviews describing how people with psychosocial dis...

China's Xi says 'happiness' in Xinjiang on the rise, will keep teaching 'correct' outlook

China has come under scrutiny over its treatment of Uighur Muslims and claims of alleged forced-labour abuses in Xinjiang, where the United...

View: India’s entry into Top 50 global innovation nations provides push towards right future

The growth of a $190 billion-plus knowledge-based export services economy in the IT-ITeS sector points to thedepth of India’s entrepreneuri...

NHRC forms expert panel to study COVID impact on human rights

The expert panel would be headed by Dr K S Reddy, president of Public Health Foundation of India. The expert committee would assess the imp...

Women to bear brunt of new labour laws: Experts

Their concerns include likely suspension of benefits provided by the Maternity Benefits Act and equal renumeration, apart from not holding ...

Risk management to HR dynamics: Lessons from COVID-19 to take centre stage at B-schools

Effects on economy, changing dynamic of Human Resources management due to work from home, price controls, sustainability, localism, busines...