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India has lost 550 jobs a day in last 4 years: Study

Job creation in India successively slowing down; employment might shrink 7 million by 2050

Scant growth in jobs, but consumer spending buoyant: Survey

The survey doesn't include purchases of items like clothing, fireworks that are done normally during the festive season

After Flipkart fiasco, L&T Infotech now withdraws offer letters to 1,500 students

Cites poor performance of students as reason; students plan hunger strike in Chennai to protest the firm's move

India likely to employ 2.9 mn flexi staff by 2018: Report

The flexi staff workforce at present in the country has increased to 2.1 million from 1.7 million in 2015

For biz grads, it's back to job basics

As global investors become more cautious about investments, e-commerce players and start-ups in the country have to tighten their purse strings while hiring

US jobless claims fall despite anemic economic growth

Govt data showed about 2.4 million people entered or re-entered job market between Sept and March, 2nd largest increase in labor force over a 6 month period on record

World stocks start quarter in the red as US jobs report looms

The latest twist was this week's surprisingly dovish tone from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, which saw investors further scale back expectations for how far and fast US interest rates would rise in future

India Inc young guns ape Gates, Jobs in vocal rivalry

Throwing corporate propriety to the wind, founders of Flipkart, Snapdeal often aim barbs at each other on Twitter & Facebook

India should attract manufacturing firms moving out of China: Arvind Panagariya

The NITI Aayog Vice Chairman said movement of workers out of agriculture to non-agriculture is much slower and that is where the manufacturing is crucial link

China steelmaker to cut up to 50,000 jobs

The firm's steel division currently has 80,000 employees but might retain only 30,000 of them

A plan in case robots take the jobs: Give everyone a paycheque

Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply automation will affect future employment.But for the sake of argument, imagine that within two or three decades we'll have morphed into the Robotic States of America.In Robot America, most manual labourers will have been replaced by herculean bots. Truck drivers, cabbies, delivery workers and airline pilots will have been superseded by vehicles that do it all. Doctors, lawyers, business executives and even technology columnists for The New York Times will have seen their ranks thinned by charming, attractive, all-knowing algorithms.How will society function after humanity has been made redundant? Technologists and economists have been grappling with this fear for decades, but in the last few years, one idea has gained widespread interest - including from some of the very technologists who are now building the bot-ruled futur