Mumbai: The passenger vehicle market is witnessing a paradox this festive season: some models command waiting periods of up to 96 weeks with no discounts while others are offering cash discounts as high as ₹4.5 lakh to manage inventory pileups. This highlights a growing segmentation between premium and volume players in one of the world’s … Read more
Priced from 4,299 yuan (US$608) to 6,799 yuan, the X200 series marks the latest effort by Vivo to crack the industry’s lucrative high-end segment in the world’s largest smartphone market and across the globe. Vivo said it will start shipping the X200 series from October 19. Initially known for its low-budget handsets, Vivo has risen … Read more
It has been five months since their last heated online spat, but on Wednesday, Wizkid reignited his long-standing beef with his contemporary, Davido, on his X account. It is the second time in 2024 that Wizkid would initiate a spat and throw jabs at his much-perceived ‘industry rival,’ Davido. The fresh trouble began in September … Read more
In the era of hybrid teams, everyone is a road warrior—not just sales teams and C-suite execs. It’s part of why business travel spending is expected to finally reach, and perhaps surpass, pre-pandemic levels by the end of the year, according to Deloitte. But, as with everything, work trips are not what they were in … Read more
Back in 1996, employment lawyer Karen Michael was added to a new case. Several women were suing their employer, her client, after being sexually harassed by one of their coworkers. The women had expressed their grievances through the company’s workplace survey, but the company had failed to notice. “They did nothing with that information,” Michael … Read more
If you are attending college this year, you’re probably already familiar with Handshake. In recent years, the campus recruiting platform has become synonymous with higher-education hiring, and is one of the primary tools for students looking for internships, on-campus, and entry-level roles. The platform was created in 2014 by a group of Michigan Tech University … Read more
The Act protects most workers older than 40 from discrimination based on age in hiring, promotion, compensation, employment terms, conditions, privileges, and termination, but leaves room for certain exceptions—and work-arounds. The ADEA makes an explicit exception for what it calls “bona fide occupational qualifications,” allowing age limits on specific jobs for safety reasons, like bus … Read more
As managers struggle under heightened pressure to do more with less, their staff are feeling ignored, and checking out. The vicious cycle is documented across numerous studies and surveys which suggest an increasingly fast-moving and complex business environment is causing senior leaders to put greater pressure on managers, and those struggles are trickling down to … Read more
The Indian market is an “exception”, growing steadily and sustainably at a time when demand for premium vehicles in several developed countries like China, Japan and Korea have started slowing down amid weak customer sentiments, Jean-Philippe Parain, Senior Vice President, Region Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, BMW Group said. Parain, along with Markus … Read more
Performance improvement plans, or PIPs, tend to be seen as a death knell for the employees who get them. Rather than a sincere approach to helping team members succeed, they can often signal a slow farewell from the company—a three-month countdown to getting let go. As Owen Manley, a former sales account executive put on … Read more
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