April 15, 2021
With a raging pandemic potentially threatening their business prospects, Indian companies are putting extra efforts into employee retention.
In line with companies across the Asia Pacific region, Indian firms have increased their spending on employee engagement and wellbeing, and training and development, among other measures that can help in staff retention, according to a survey by LinkedIn. The increase in budget for current employees comes at a time when companies in the Asia Pacific region have cut hiring spends by around 30% due to an “uncertain business outlook,” the survey said.
The findings are based on a quantitative 20-minute online survey filled by over 3,500 small, medium, and large companies across Australia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore.
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Travel and tourism sector, which saw its employment fall by 5.5 million during the severe lockdown of June quarter, employed 20.7 million people in December 2020 quarter
Chitranjan Kumar | January 19, 2021 | Updated 23:37 IST
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India s job market is on a road to recovery, with most of the sectors restoring many jobs that were lost due to coronavirus pandemic-led nationwide lockdown, raising hopes that the worst may be over. Mitigating the impact of lockdown, most of the sectors, including agriculture, services, real estate and construction, have seen some recovery in terms of employment, but jobs have moved from higher labour productivity sector to those with low productivity, says private think-tank CMIE.
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