Businesses can drive up revenue by investing in their employees’ mental health. The report shows that the productivity gains can be estimated at $21-151 billion annually.
Supporters of longer workweeks argue that relentless labour is crucial for India to remain globally competitive. However, productivity is not directly proportional to working hours.
L&T chairperson Subrahmanyan said in annual address that he ‘regrets being unable to make employees work on Sundays’. One employee says what Subrahmanyan expects is ‘inhumane’.
The annual Rs 3.5 lakh package offered to engineering graduates by multinational companies implies that work may be considered worship, the ‘prasadam’ will remain insufficient.
Senior officials will have to access e-mails & e-files even when on leave, tour or training. Union health ministry issues order dispensing with system of link officers.
In 'The Company We Keep' Divya Khanna gives her insights on the corporate culture of India through her experiences, which are doubled down by expert comments and responses from other corporate employees.
The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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