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Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), the bottling arm of Coca-Cola India, is set to lay off around 300 staffers as part of a plan to improve profitability and streamline operations.The company has approximately 5,000 employees and 15 manufacturing units, bottles and distributes brands such as Coca-Cola, Thums Up, Sprite, Minute Maid juices and Kinley water.A company…
Microsoft has issued an advisory for its employees on H-1B/H-4 amid the ongoing visa appointment rescheduling and stamping delays. This comes amid new social media screening, said to address the potential “abuse of the H-1B program”. Calling it a “rapidly developing situation”, the software giant has issued “preliminary guidance” for employees who are in the…
AI-generated image for representation purpose only A Chinese technology company is giving its employees renovated flats as an incentive to retain staff. According to a report by South China Morning Post, a company executive recently posted a job listing which said that the company, Zhejiang Guosheng Automotive Technology Co. Ltd plans to distribute 18 flats…
Google has informed its employees that it will restart and also ‘ramp up’ application for the US green cards via the PERM program in 2026. The company’s plan to restart the process comes after the pause of three years which wS started among sweeping layoffs in 2023. As reported by Business Insider, the announcement by…
Elon Musk is a frequently active on his platform, X (formerly known as Twitter), often using his influence to propagate a ‘hardcore’ work culture and leadership qualities. Recently, the Tesla CEO publicly aligned himself with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s philosophy, that is, the goal isn’t just to fix a task but to model a logic…
Dell is cracking down on employees who have been “badge-swiping” or leaving early. According to a report, internal “walkthroughs” revealed widespread non-compliance with the company’s return-to-office (RTO) mandate that was announced earlier this year. In a strongly worded internal memo, Jackie Miller, Dell’s vice president of North American Commercial Sales, informed the sales staff that…
Salesforce is scaling back its reliance on large language models due to reliability issues, as acknowledged by executives. The company is shifting towards more predictable ‘deterministic’ automation in its Agentforce product, aiming to eliminate AI’s inherent randomness. Salesforce, one of the world’s most valuable enterprise software companies, is pulling back from its heavy reliance on…
With just days left before the year-end compliance window closes, the Income Tax department has begun reaching out directly to multinational companies, asking them to alert Indian employees about undisclosed foreign assets and income, according to multiple tax advisors.Several large multinationals — including a global consumer healthcare firm, a wireless technology major and a US-based…
Apple has now joined the list of other tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and others in warning employees about the risks of international travel due to delays in US visa stamping. Recently, the US Department of State has acknowledged significant delays in visa appointments at American embassies and consulates worldwide, including in India, as…
Google has asked some of its employees in the US to not travel abroad amid the H-1B visa row. According to a report by Business Insider, the company’s outside counsel, BAL Immigration Law has sent an internal memo which says that workers who require a new visa stamp to re-enter the US risk being stuck…
