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Hybrid work surged 29 per cent (year-on-year) in the April-June period globally as "remote work" and "work from home" options declined, a report showed on Monday. Hybrid working roles, which enable employees to balance their work hours between the office and their homes, are experiencing a growth as the world opens up, reveals GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Job postings related to hybrid work increased in industries such as travel and tourism, retail, and financial services increased in Q2. «Overall interest in hybrid roles has remained intact as companies seem to be trying to strike a balance between complying with return-to-office requirements and offering work flexibility as well,» said Sherla Sriprada, Business Fundamentals Analyst at GlobalData. An analysis revealed that some of the notable companies that posted jobs offering a hybrid work model include Element Fleet Management, Flight Centre Travel Group, Albertsons Companies, Amazon.com, Wells Fargo & Co, and Hub International.

reality in India Inc: overwhelmingly male-dominated corporate boards. There have been gradual gains to bridge the disparity at the employee level as well as top echelons, some of it through regulatory intervention. Yet, pain points remain.

Queensland Energy Minister Mick de Brenni says he has full confidence in the CS Energy board despite taxpayers remaining in the dark over the cause of the catastrophic failure of the state-owned firm’s Callide C coal-fired power station more than two years ago.

EY has posted revenue of $2.7 billion, up a solid 11 per cent, during 2022-23 described as a “challenging year” for the firm as growth slows in consulting and while the wider profession faces increased scrutiny at the federal level due to the PwC tax leaks scandal.

August 23rd, 2023, MUMBAI – Nucleus Office Parks (“Nucleus"), which manages an industry leading portfolio of over 20 million square feet of Grade A commercial assets in India, hosted its second annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Summit. More than 170 real estate and policy experts from leading organizations including Harappa Education, Infosys, Schneider Electric, Cushman & Wakefield, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, and Deloitte Consulting, gathered under the theme of “Staying Ahead of the ESG Curve" to share best ESG practices.

The NSW Greens have proposed an amendment to force accounting firms structured as partnerships with more than 100 partners to pay 5.45 per cent payroll tax on their partner income.

Deloitte on Tuesday said it has launched its global AI market incubator that will promote innovation in generative artificial intelligence (AI) and serve global and Indian enterprises. «The AI incubator will leverage the in-depth sector knowledge and AI/ML expertise of our professionals, including data scientists and engineers,» the company said in a statement These professionals work through a multi-disciplinary model built on design thinking to ensure speed, faster time to market and immediate value generation in critical projects, it added. Deloitte said it currently has active global engagements in the areas of drug discovery, customer experience, content generation and personal avatars, marking over 100 corporations in the past six months. “These engagements demonstrate the increasing relevance of generative AI.” The launch of the Global Generative AI Market Incubator by Deloitte also aligns with the government’s overall agenda of nurturing tech talent and AI-driven opportunities, the company said. «Through this initiative, we aim to resolve unique industry cases by providing the right strategy and drawing on the strengths of our collaboration with alliance partners,” Sathish Gopalaiah, president, consulting at Deloitte India, said. Deloitte launched its Generative AI practice in India in June to help enterprises with strategic innovations, talent development and a collaborative alliance ecosystem.

companies (MNCs) or firms with high foreign holdings have been doling out liberal dividends since the removal of the dividend distribution tax (DDT) in April 2020. Tax experts and market participants said the scrapping of DDT, which results in dividend income getting taxed in the hands of the recipient or the shareholder, has made such payouts a more tax-friendly way of distributing cash for the MNCs. In FY23, the dividend earned by foreign promoters and other overseas investors was nearly ₹1.24 lakh crore compared to ₹53,600 crore in FY20 or ₹53,500 crore in FY19. Till FY20, companies were required to pay Dividend Distribution Tax at an effective rate of 20.56%.

Wipro appoints Brijesh Singh to Senior Vice President and Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Head for Wipro Enterprise Futuring. Singh brings to Wipro over 30 years of experience in the technology consulting space and was previously a Senior Partner at Deloitte where he was responsible for driving AI and data-led transformation.

volunteering trends, revealing substantial untapped potential for employee involvement in volunteering initiatives. The report emphasizes the benefits that such initiatives can bring to both employees and companies. According to the report, corporate India is sitting on a socio-economic opportunity worth Rs 7,500 crore through volunteering initiatives. The potential goes beyond mere Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding, as both employees and companies can actively engage in developmental causes, imparting a substantial positive influence on society. With about 15 million white collar employees in India, a potential of 150 million+ hours can be volunteered annually by corporate India towards social & economic development. This would represent a significant socio-economic contribution of over Rs 7,500 crore, which can be unlocked by promoting volunteering in Indian corporates (30% of the overall CSR spending in India), potentially generating a 5x social return on investment for companies.

Now, in line with a global boom in women's football, they are being paid, receive instructions from a full-time coach, enjoy the same multi-million pound training facilities as the men — and no longer moonlight as rubbish collectors. «In such a short time, we've seen massive changes,» said 24-year-old midfielder Molly Holder, in her third campaign at Stoke.

IDBI Bank: The proposed sale of the government’s stake in IDBI Bank is unlikely to happen this fiscal, posing a challenge to the Centre’s ability to meet the ₹51,000 crore disinvestment target for the year. The government expected more than ₹15,000 crore from the IDBI Bank stake sale, the financial due diligence for which began in July. It had planned to issue financial bids for IDBI Bank by December and completing the transaction in the fourth quarter of the fiscal.

Libya’s central bank has announced its reunification after being split for nearly a decade due to the country’s long-running civil war that resulted in two rival administrations, in the east and the west

GQG Partners raised its stake in Adani Ports And Special Economic Zone Ltd on August 17 to 5.03% after buying more shares, GQG said in a disclosure on Saturday. GQG Partners, which held a 4.93% stake in Adani Ports, acquired another 0.10% or 2.2 million shares of the company through a bulk deal, the disclosure made late on Saturday said. The investment comes after Deloitte quit as auditor for Adani Ports, in the first such move after U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research's critical report on the Adani group that was published in January. The Adani group has denied all Hindenburg's allegations. Reuters reported last Wednesday that GQG partners bought an 8.1% stake in Adani Power for $1.1 billion via block deal.

Economic Times on 19 August. Identified as Vikas Om Prakas Noval, the vendor had filed the FIR under sections 406, 409, 420, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Rahul Yadav continues to intensify with a Rajasthan-based vendor filing a first information report (FIR) against him alleging fraud and criminal breach of trust. The vendor, Vikas Om Prakas Noval has filed the FIR under section 406, 409, 420, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Private equity firms are increasingly enamoured by the professional services realm, where misfortune is stirring opportunities for the world’s buyout giants.

promoter entities of Adani Power Ltd sold shares worth more than ₹8,710 crore (over $1 billion) to US-based investment firm GQG Partners, its co-investors, and others on Wednesday in block deals. Worldwide Emerging Market Holding Ltd and Afro Asia Trade and Investments Ltd, the two promoter entities, together sold 312 million shares translating to an 8.1% stake. Adani Power, the thermal power generation arm of the Adani Group, closed 2.3% lower at ₹279.30 on the BSE Wednesday.

Gautam Adani can’t afford a costly distraction. While his core infrastructure business is booming, there’s little reprieve from the governance issues that have dogged the Adani Group since New York-based Hindenburg Research’s allegations of stock-price manipulation and undisclosed related-party transactions earlier this year. Despite its strenuous denial of the short-seller’s report, the conglomerate’s market value has sagged more than $100 billion since January.

Accounting bodies have softly lashed the corporate watchdog for axing its annual report card on big four accounting firms’ audit quality, cutting the program size, and ditching its chief accountant.

The starting pay for most auditing staff in parts of EY’s financial services division will not increase this year, at the same time the firm has told clients that “significant wage inflation” had forced it to increase its audit fees.