Flexi-staffing has advantages for employers and also certain kinds of employees.

Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has introduced a legislation in the House of Representatives which gives flexibility to H-1B workers to switch jobs and reduces the Green Card backlog.

Currently, only 20 per cent of the courses on their internal learning and development platform 'Virtual Tata Communications Academy' are customised for the company.

According to Professor Errol D'Souza, director of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), the disruption has already started to happen.

A survey found that a fifth of 63 million small businesses faced a 20 per cent fall in profits since the GST rollout, and had to sack hundreds of thousands of workers.

Cars and other durables to get costlier this festive seasonWith the rupee's continuous fall against the dollar automobile and consumer goods companies are facing a tough time. This festive season will see these goods become more expensive. LG, Haier, and Godrej Appliances have hiked prices by 3-5 per cent this month. Panasonic India is expected to increase product prices by 2-3 per cent soon as reported by the Business Standard. Maruti Suzuki, the country's largest carmaker, has i...

Vijayalakshmi Das once hand-held the microfinance institutions. Now, she is doing the same with farmer collectives and churning out women entrepreneurs.

The pay gap between female and male employees not only exists but also increases as they advance in their careers. What can be done to reverse the trend?

Ira Kalish, Chief Global Economist, Deloitte, Touche Tohmatsu, talks to Prosenjit Datta, Rajeev Dubey and Joe C. Mathew on how India can do well in spite of trade wars, oil, the state of the global economy and the future of global trade.

Why so few women are taking the start-up route.

Gender parity is lacking in STEM professions and leadership roles, but some women continue, undeterred.

These digital born companies are not in the business of producing the product that the buyer consumes. They are in the business of facilitating interactions between producers, partners and consumers on a digital platform in a seamless fashion.

PM Modi to inaugurate India Post Payments Bank on August 21; govt panel wants localisation of cloud storage data in possible blow to big tech firms; Wipro to move workforce to a new 50-acre campus; and Indian Oil to invest Rs 1.75 lakh cr for expansion, says Chairman Sanjiv Singh. Watch more in this episode of business wrap.

Affordable housing is picking up pace, thanks to proactive policies and savvy investors/developers. But sustaining the momentum is a tall order.

Banks collect Rs 5,000 cr as minimum balance penalty in FY 2017-18As many as 21 public sector banks (PSBs) and three major private sector lenders have collected a whopping Rs 5,000 crore from customers for non-maintenance of minimum balance in their accounts in 2017-18. Among the PSBs, the State Bank of India emerged the highest earner with Rs 2433 crore penalty - nearly half of the total collection.PM Modi to inaugurate India Post Payments Bank on August 21Prime Minister Narendra...

Invest India, the national investment promotion and facilitation agency set by the Central government has joined hands with energy sector companies to offer lab-to-market opportunity for Indian start-ups through a three month 'Integrate to Innovate' Programme.

The Bengaluru-based IT company has already been ramping local hiring in key markets like the US to tackle increasing scrutiny around work visas by various governments around the world.

The report says despite all its achievements, Indian agriculture is still grappling with challenges like high monsoon dependency, unpredictable weather patterns, reduction in arable land, low per hectare yield, lower farmer incomes, etc.

The CEO of German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp on Thursday announced his resignation, just days after he hailed the \"historic\" merger of the company's steel-making business with Tata Steel.

The Railways authorities used 16 heavy duty excavators, three heavy duty cranes, five tippers (truck), 1,000 sandbags, four hydra machines, heavyweight jacks, and a workforce of as many as 300 people to complete the task in just four and half hour.