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IT Giant Cognizant Issues Warning For Employees: Return To Office Or Get Fired

The mandate follows similar moves by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro, which also instructed their employees to return to the office in 2023.

May 18, 2024, 16:02 PM IST

Cognizant Veteran Rajesh Nambiar Appointed As Nasscom Chairperson

Nambiar takes on the new role from his previous role as Vice Chairperson succeeding Anant Maheshwari, ex-President of Microsoft India and now President and CEO of Honeywell’s High Growth Region portfolio.

Sep 04, 2023, 16:19 PM IST

Cognizant Appoints 6 Women In Top Leadership Roles, Including 2 Indian Executives

Among the Indian women leaders, Sailaja Josyula was promoted and is now the SVP, Intuitive Operations & Automation (IOA), for the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry for the commercial markets in North America as well as global delivery.

Jul 19, 2023, 16:54 PM IST

IT Giant Cognizant To Lay Off 3,500 Employees, Or 1% Workforce Globally

Cognizant reported a 3 per cent (year-on-year) rise in its net profit to $580 million in the March quarter of FY23. The company reported revenue of $4.8 billion, which declined 0.3 per cent year-over-year, in Q1 2023.

May 04, 2023, 13:42 PM IST

Cognizant appoints Ravi Kumar as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect

Kumar formerly held a position with Infosys. During the period from January 2016 until October 2022, he served as the company's president.

Jan 12, 2023, 20:40 PM IST

Cognizant closes Q3 with $4.9 billion revenue

The company follows the calendar year as its accounting year. The earnings per share stood at $1.17 ($1.06 Q32021).

Nov 03, 2022, 10:16 AM IST

Infosys gives a salary hike upto 25% to its several employees - Details here

Infosys had reported its consolidated net profit surged by 11.1 per cent year-on-year to Rs 6,021 crore for the second quarter of the current financial year as compared to Rs 5,421 core recorded in the corresponding period of the previous year.  

Oct 20, 2022, 13:08 PM IST

IT biggies TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant to ask employees to work from office again: Reports

Media reports have said that top IT firms like TCS, Wipro, Cognizant and Infosys are contemplating to end Work From Home provision and ask the employees to return to office.

Feb 22, 2022, 11:31 AM IST

Cognizant Recruitment: IT firm is hiring fresh BCA, BSc graduates; check last date, eligibility

Cognizant is inviting applications from fresh graduates who completed their BSc and BCA courses for the post of GenC Programmer Trainee.

Jan 05, 2022, 16:39 PM IST

Maze ransomware attacks IT services company Cognizant

"Our internal security teams, supplemented by leading cyber defense firms, are actively taking steps to contain this incident. Cognizant has also engaged with the appropriate law enforcement authorities," Cognizant said.

Apr 20, 2020, 22:23 PM IST

Facebook contractor Cognizant to cut 13,000 jobs, exit content moderation

The information technology services provider will also eliminate up to 7,000 jobs in its other units to invest in growth areas such as cloud and internet of things to cushion the impact from a decline in spending by its financial customers.

Oct 31, 2019, 12:42 PM IST

Mindtree names former Cognizant executive Debashis Chatterjee as CEO

Mindtree has appointed named SN Subrahmanyan, CEO of Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T), as its non-executive vice chairman.

Aug 02, 2019, 14:33 PM IST

Madras HC dismisses Cognizant's plea challenging Rs 2,912 cr dividend distribution tax

Justice K Kalyanasundaram granted liberty to the petitioner to raise all the issues before the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) within two weeks.

Jun 26, 2019, 10:34 AM IST

Cognizant Q3 net up 11%, eyes 9.5-10% rev growth in 2017

Cognizant has also revised its revenue growth outlook for the full year to 9.5-10 per cent (USD 14.78-14.84 billion) compared to a previous forecast of 9-10 per cent growth.

Nov 01, 2017, 16:31 PM IST

Uber India appoints Vishpala Reddy as Chief People's Officer

With over 17 years of experience, Reddy will also focus on enhancing diversity and inclusion by developing programmes to foster an equal opportunity workplace at Uber as part of her role.

Aug 21, 2017, 16:27 PM IST

Cognizant emerges as top recruiter across 26 of India’s top B-schools in 2017

Cognizant went past ICICI Bank and Deloitte to emerge as the top recruiter across 26 of India’s top B-schools.

Aug 18, 2017, 08:56 AM IST

Cognizant delays salary hikes, promotions by 3 months

US-based IT firm Cognizant has delayed salary hikes and promotions for employees till October amid an uncertain business environment.

Jun 29, 2017, 22:31 PM IST

Reports of job losses overstated, to hire 20K this year: Infosys

IT services major Infosys on Friday said it will hire 20,000 people this year as against only 400 people being asked to leave on performance grounds and termed reports of large-scale job losses as "overstated".

Jun 02, 2017, 18:05 PM IST

Cognizant layoff plea closed in favour of sacked staff: Govt

The Cognizant layoff case has been closed in favour of employees and the company has been asked to hold talks one-on-one to resolve the issue.

May 27, 2017, 21:10 PM IST

Employee separation offer 1st time in India, US: Cognizant

Under fire for its 'employee separation package', IT firm Cognizant has said the company has offered it in India and the US for the first time, unlike its peers who keep taking such steps regularly.

May 25, 2017, 19:35 PM IST