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Google tells employees to take Friday off as a ‘collective wellbeing’ holiday during pandemic Key Points • Google is giving employees an additional holiday ahead of Labor Day weekend to avoid employee burnout. • The extra day comes as the company hopes to preserve “ collective wellbeing” as the Covid-19 pandemic enters its seventh month. • CEO Sundar Pichai and top execs are trying to find ways to show support to employees mid-2021.
who are working remotely until at least
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Google is giving employees another day off to avoid burnout as the Covid-19 Pandemic enters its seventh month. The company is marking Friday as a one-time paid holiday for “collective wellbeing” that applies to full-time employees and interns, according to documents viewed by CNBC. The added off day turns the Labor Day holiday into a four-day weekend. Google said the holiday is tied to the pandemic and won’t be added to the annual calendar. “We strongly encourage you to take this day off — and managers should actively support their team to reprioritize work commitments in order to do so,” an internal forum for employees says. “If your manager identifies an urgent business-critical need that requires you to work at the last minute, you should take the next available working day off instead.”
“We’d like you to take this time off together as one team to better allow for detachment as a global community,” Google said. If employees already booked the time off for vacation, the company advised them to cancel the request for that day and reschedule to “take advantage of this additional holiday.”..
Read more at: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/03/google-tells-employees-totake-friday-off-for-collective-wellbeing.html
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Searches for sports have dropped by 20% since COVID-19 onset: Indeed Data from Indeed has revealed that searches for jobs related to sports have gone up by 11% in the past year (August 2019 to August 2020), while postings for these jobs went down by 25% during this time. However, since the onset of the pandemic, searches for sports-related jobs have gone down by 20% (March to Aug 2020) and postings for these jobs declined by 29%.
Indeed’s data also reveals that New Delhi is the leading region for jobs in sports, hosting 24% of all postings in the country, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, with 20% and 15% of postings respectively. While Maharashtra maintains its spot on the list, New Delhi has overtaken last year’s leader Karnataka, to take the top spot this year.
In terms of searches, job seekers in the age group of 21-25 years show the most interest in sports-related jobs, making up almost half (45%) of all clicks in the category.
Telangana and Tamil Nadu make up 8% of postings each, rounding off the top 5 regions for sports-related jobs for this year. “While large scale events might..
Read more at: https://www.peoplematters.in/news/recruitment/searches-forsports-jobs-have-dropped-by-20-since-covid-19-onset-indeed-26954
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81% employers sensitized staff on mental safety: Survey A majority (81%) of India Inc. employers sensitized their workforce on mental and emotional well-being to help them cope up with COVID-19 induced anxiety, reveals a new survey done by TimesJobs. Around 25% of HR managers said that 30-40% of their employees were availing the well-being measures introduced by their respective organizations. The survey titled ‘Employee well-being amid COVID-19’ captured the sentiments of 834 HR managers. The survey highlights how companies are addressing the agenda of employees’ mental and emotional well-being owing to the COVID-19 work from home situation. The key trends in the employee well-being space amid COVID-19 lockdown: • “A majority (31%) of HR managers said that their employee well-being programs were ‘effective’ as compared to other industry players. • The HR managers working across diverse industry verticals rated their employee well-being program ‘5’ on the scale of 1-10 • As many as 59% of HR managers plan to set up a crisis management team to address employees’ well-being issues effectively.
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“The COVID-19 pandemic introduced remote work ecosystem en-mass, which was new to many in the workforce. Employers around the world are concerned about the well-being challenges presented by the present situation. The current pandemic situation has led to faster adoption of #Workfromhome culture among employees and employers. This change that has come in the last six months would have taken 15 years without the COVID situation,” Sanjay Goyal, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig. Other notable insights from this survey were –
Next 29% of respondents said that they had started free health and fitness consultation for employees to tackle the current lockdown. While 20% of them said to help their workforce, they have implemented virtual mindfulness workshops as a part of their employee well-being programs…
Staff mentoring, virtual mindfulness workshops helping companies to ensure employee well-being amid lockdown. Around 35% of professionals stated that they had introduced policies such as one on one counselling, staff mentoring, etc.
Read more at: https://www.peoplematters.in/news/culture/81-employerssensitized-staff-on-mental-safety-survey-26910
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Cabinet approves Mission Karmayogi to bring in reforms in civil services The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the launch of Mission Karmayogi programme to bring in comprehensive reforms in the civil services capacity building apparatus at individual, institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery. The plans under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) will be approved by the Prime Minister-led Public Human Resources Council. “Mission Karmayogi aims to prepare the Indian civil servant for the future by making him more creative, constructive, imaginative, innovative, proactive, professional, progressive, energetic, enabling, transparent and technology-enabled. Empowered with specific role- competencies, the civil servant will be able to ensure efficient service delivery of the highest quality standards,� an official statement said.
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SPV to be created Under the scheme, a Capacity Building Commission will be set up and a Special Purpose Vehicle will be created for owning and operating the digital assets and the technological platform for online skill training. It will also have a co-ordination unit headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
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The programme will be delivered by setting up an Integrated Government Online Training (iGOTKarmayogi) Platform, which will emphasise on ‘onsite learning’ to complement the ‘off-site’ learning and creating an ecosystem of shared training infrastructure. “To cover around 46 lakh Central employees, a sum of ₹510.86 crore will be spent over a period of five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The expenditure is partly funded by multilateral assistance to the tune of $50 million,” according to the statement. The SPV will be a ‘not-for-profit’ company and will own and manage iGOT-Karmayogi platform. The key focus of the programme will be to transition from ‘rules based’ to 'roles based’ HR management and aligning of work allocation of civil servants by matching their competencies to the requirements of the post. Testing of textiles Meanwhile, the Cabinet also approved signing of a MoU between India’s Textiles Committee and Japan’s Nissenken Quality Evaluation Centre, for improving quality and testing of Indian textiles and clothing for the Japanese market. Another MoU for co-operation in the field of geology and mineral resources between the Geological..
Read more at: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/cabinetapproves-mission-karmayogi-to-bring-in-reforms-in-civilservices/article32505831.ece 8