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Second COVID wave in India badly hit daily wage urban workers
Economy

Editorial: Five key steps to jump start a job scheme for urban workers

November 15, 2021 T R Gopalakrishnan

With slowdown in industries making jobs scarce across the country, a work scheme for urban workers at the grassroots is much needed. And it can be done.

Image data analytics
Economy

Future of Jobs: Welcome to the world of algorithm makers, big-data analytics

September 7, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

It’s the age of Big Data. The field of data science is brimming with opportunities, in sub-segments like data visualization and data communication.

Reverse migration during the first wave in 2020
Economy

Migrant workers back in cities, but where are the jobs?

July 24, 2021 Raj Machhan

Even skilled migrant workers are finding it difficult to get work, and thus taking up semi-skilled, unskilled jobs or short term gigs.

Second COVID wave in India badly hit daily wage urban workers
Economy

Guest column: A councillor-driven urban jobs initiative could save the day

June 26, 2021 Ankur Sarin

DUET, A councillor-driven urban employment initiative, and decentralisation

Kerala's Ayyankali Urban Employmen Scheme
Economy

Empower and fund local bodies to make urban employment guarantee work: Experts

June 25, 2021 Navya P K

We spoke to two eminent economists on issues concerning creation of urban employment guarantee schemes; both stressed on decentralisation and involvement of local governments.

Orissa govt's urban work programme in 2020
Economy

Urban employment guarantee Part 2: The challenge lies in making it viable

June 23, 2021 Vijaya Pushkarna

Many economists concur on the need for an urban job guarantee scheme, à la MNREGA, but differences remain over how to make it work. The government doesn’t seem too interested either.

Some income guarantee in villages for migrant labour
Economy

Urban employment guarantee Part 1: “Desperate times call for desperate measures”

June 22, 2021 Vijaya Pushkarna

In the first of a three part series, we explore the need for a work guarantee scheme to mitigate the crippling effects of the pandemic on the urban poor.

A professional attending an online training session
Economy

Future of jobs: Internships, the new final job interview

May 20, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

The author’s first word of advice in this oped: Don’t get obsessed with a ‘dream company’. Have a ‘dream industry’ orientation instead.

Education

Future of Jobs: Is the MBA regime nearing its end?

March 16, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

Going forward, the MBA market will probably get splintered into sub-parts and specialized MBAs, focusing on specific sectors like entrepreneurship and more.

Economy

Future of jobs: From ‘I’ to ‘T’ to [Pi] ‘π’

January 27, 2021 Ambi Parameswaran

Hybridization has now moved up a notch. It is not just hybridization of jobs; it is also hybridization of how work gets done.

Economy

Future of jobs: What lies ahead for the water-cooler conversations?

November 7, 2020 Ambi Parameswaran

As the future of work changes, we will see the future of meetings change dramatically too. The Zoom mania will die down as people start using tools that measure their productivity.

Economy

Struggling to save lives and livelihoods in Pune, post lockdown

October 31, 2020 Ambika Shaligram

The old jobs are out. The only option left to earn some income is to try something different. But how is that panning out in Pune?

Unemployed migrant workers
Economy

Jobs scarce, markets depressed; Chandigarh now hoping for Diwali boost

October 29, 2020 Raj Machhan

The dire need to find alternative sources of income is not limited to just domestic and construction workers. Every category of labour has been hit hard.

Economy

From selling turmeric water to security services: How the jobless in Delhi are rebuilding their lives

September 12, 2020 Vijaya Pushkarna

More and more people who lost their jobs to the pandemic are making new beginnings. Earnings may be less initially, but the road ahead promises flexibility and independence.

Economy

These Delhiites always worked from home, but COVID has left them jobless

September 9, 2020 Avi Majithia and Malavika Narayan

Home-based workers in Delhi are engaged in various trades: from hand embroidery to manufacturing, packaging and more. But COVID has shut down most of the factories in the city that provided work for them.

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