Rishad Premji

Wipro chairman Rishad Premji's compensation down 50% as profits fall

Company filing says 'no commission payable for fiscal year'; CEO and CFO take cuts too

More employees need to work from offices, says Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji

Information technology major Wipro's Chairman Rishad Premji on Wednesday said more employees need to work from offices rather than from their homes. He also said that coming to office helps in establishing a connect and an intimacy which is very essential for us as humans, and made it clear that no technology can be of help on the same. "You can't build that connectedness and intimacy no matter how advanced technology gets. We are human beings. I am a big believer that we should be coming back (to offices) in some shape and form," Premji said while speaking at the NTLF 2023. Accepting that hybrid working, where an employee works both from office and homes, is the future of work, Premji said the technology industry is one of the most "spoilt" sector where people enjoy this unique way of working. "People should have flexibility to work from home but people should also be coming into organisations," he said. Premji said it was possible to work from homes in the initial days of the ..

Tech industry one of the most spoilt in the mode of work: Rishad Premji

Indian IT companies are facing challenges in re-establishing the work-from-office model of pre-pandemic times

Covid impact shows that work can be done remotely: Wipro's Rishad Premji

IT companies facing high attrition because they chase the same talent pool and should widen their search, he says

Fired a senior employee in 10 mins for integrity violation: Rishad Premji

Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji on Wednesday revealed that one of the organisation's top 20 staff members was shown the door in connection with huge integrity issues

Is the IT industry facing an HR management challenge?

Wipro's Rishad Premji recently said that talent, not market growth, was the challenge tech services companies were staring at. What is the cause of these troubles? Is it an HR management challenge?

Top headlines: DGCA extends curbs on SpiceJet; Wipro fires 300 employees

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the national logistics policy, which aims at reducing transportation cost and improve global performance of the sector.

Wipro fired 300 staff found working with rivals at same time: Rishad Premji

Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji on Wednesday said the company had found its 300 employees worked with one of its competitors at the same time, and added that action was taken in such cases by terminating their services. Premji asserted that he stands by his recent comments on moonlighting being a complete violation of integrity "in its deepest form". "The reality is that there are people today working for Wipro and working directly for one of our competitors and we have actually discovered 300 people in the last few months who are doing exactly that," Premji said speaking at AIMA's (All India Management Association) National Management Convention. Asked about the action taken again employees who were found to be working parallely for the company as well as for rivals, Premji, on the sidelines of the event, said that their employment had been terminated for "act of integrity violation". The definition of moonlighting itself is about having another job secretively. As part of transparen

Employee connect crucial to build culture esp for freshers: Rishad Premji

Says the top challenge that the IT industry is facing right now is talent. The companies who win the war on talent, win the game

Wipro leaders to return to office from Monday: Chairman Rishad Premji

He also shared a video about the Covid-19-related safety protocols, including temperature checks and QR code scans, that have been put in place at the Wipro office

Wipro's Rishad Premji bats for self-governance by social media platforms

Wipro's Chairman Rishad Premji said social media platforms have integrated the world like never before and should be allowed to practice "responsive self-governance" to tackle the misinformation.

Wipro's Rishad Premji, CEO Delaporte to go for major change to boost growth

Starting from its experiment with joint CEOs in 2008 to being one of the first Indian IT services company to appoint a non-Indian CEO earlier this year, Wipro has taken many bold decisions

No plans to lay off staffers due to Covid: Wipro chairman Rishad Premji

The IT firm sees limited impact due to H-1B visa ban; profitable growth tops the agenda

Rishad Premji to be non-executive chairman at Wipro, nod likely on Jan 14

Premji scion will be one of the youngest to don the role

It's continuity and change at Wipro with Rishad Premji at helm: CEO

Rishad has all the values of Azim Premji and Wipro, and he's also been part of Wipro for almost 12 years now, says CEO Abidali Neemuchwala

IT industry's dependency on visas to decline further: New Nasscom chairman

Future skills programme is one of those which will ensure that there is availability of talent with the right skills in new technologies, said Rishad Premji