Comments on: Times of India Group To Lay Off Around 5% Staff Across Businesses

By: sahil

sahil — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:28:07 +0000

TBSL has lack of senior management

By: BigDaddy

BigDaddy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:09:21 +0000

Any idea on what is the current count of layoffs already implemented?

By: shiv

shiv — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:29:58 +0000

Do you think TOI (print) will recruit people, even after layoffs?

By: Agyaat

Agyaat — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:28:31 +0000

The numbers are much more the “5%”. This is mostly because of poorly unstructured departments.

By: kavita

kavita — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:56:01 +0000

all this discussion above about TOI sacking people is exciting but come to think of people who will have to face the music..many of them are single bread earners with loans,children expensive education to take care of. What’s more upsetting is that the colleagues these people were working with go and gossip about the layoff and harm their careers….these layoffs are always political games in the company where the top bosses save the people who ‘chato their talwas’

By: Santosh Pandey

Santosh Pandey — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:03:56 +0000

Its intriguing to see so many people throw muck on the “senior management” on TOI. Seems that when the going is bad, the top is the best thing to blame. I am with an ad agency and I can say that many managers that I deal with do seem very committed to the organisation – far more than junior people who seem mostly interested in negotiating a 50% jump in salary without showing 5% commitment on the job. I am sure TOI was not created by the field sales people. Most of comments seem to be coming from sales people who instead of doing their job are busy blogging and pulling the principal down. Unless the jokers on the front end improve, we will have sick top management people to deal with in next 10 years as these jokers rise in the system.

By: Raj

Raj — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:37:22 +0000

No doubts on the present slow down but its during this time that Giant Organisations can carry out a Due Diligence on themselves. The time has come where the Group’s Top Management (at the Promotor’s & Executive President’s level) gets onto a crack down mode but certainly not by sacking the brilliant Frontline Salesforce especially in the Print Business & Internal Portals. Instead, the group needs to realise that its indeed high time they replace their absolutely no brainy & highly egoistic, batallion of Sr. Managers/Chief Mgrs/DGMs/AVPs, etc and infuse young blood into the system. Its these people (The Oldies) who have had a parasitic impact on the organisation. Never have they done their jobs nor have they allowed their teams to execute tasks effectively. All that these people have been doing within the Organisation is playing dirty politics against each other. Just hope that this Group with a Big bouquet of Self selling Brands & such a wonderful business model realises this atleast now!!

By: RAVI

RAVI — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:45:23 +0000

ANY ONE, WHO IS FAMILIAR WITH MEDIA INDUSTRY, VERY WELL KNOWS THAT IN THE NAME OF FICTITIOUS BRAND BUILDING, DURING LAST APPX. TEN YEARS, BOTH JAIN BROTHERS HAVE WASTED MORE THAN 1500 CRORES FOR THEIR OTHER THAN NON-PRINT BUSINESS, INCLUDING INTERNET, TIMES JOB, TIMES MATRI, TELECOM, E-COMM, RADIO, TRAVEL, MUSIC, T.V. ETC ETC ETC. WHAT EVER IS EARNED IN TOI, IS WASTED IN PRIVATE TREATY AND IN NON-PRINT. WITH THIS HEAVY & SICK TOP MANAGEMENT, IN NEXT 4-5 YEARS THIS GROUP MAY FACE CASH CRUNCH. DEAR JAIN BANDHUS, “AB PACHTAYE HOT KYA JAB CHIDIYA CHUG GAYI KHET”.

By: Industrywatcher

Industrywatcher — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:03:58 +0000

There is something unique about almost all Internet companies. All of them have selfish and shrewd leadership team. In times like this, the senior management should take a cut in their compensation to save few entry level jobs. None of them seems to be doing so.

I think the CEOs should come forward and cut down the compensation by 50% across senior levels including their own compensation. None of them can find a job outside too.

By: sunny

sunny — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:26:48 +0000

WELL, YOU CANNT REMOVE TOP MANAGEMENT AT A GO. BUT ATLEAST YOU CAN TRIM THEIR SKY HIGH PACKAGES INSTEAD OF SAKING FRONT LINE OR MIDDLE LINE WHOS FAMILIES ARE DEPENDENT ON THIS JOB. TOP MANAGEMENT SHOULD MOVE FORWARD AND BRAVELY SHOULD SAY AND FIGHT FOR THEIR TEAM BY PROPOSING TO REDUCE THEIR SALARY. IDEALLY NO ONE WOULD DO IT BECAUSE SAB APNI APNI BACHANE MEIN LAGE HEIN. BUT, WITHOUT FRONT END, HOW ONE CAN RUN BUSINESS. ONE SIMPLE QUESTION, ARE TOP MANAGERS READY TO GO TO MARKET AND MAKE SALES CALLS AND GRAB BUSINESS FOR THEIR SO CALLED COMPANY, IF THEY CANNT THEN HOW THEY CAN JUSTIFY SAKING PROCESS? FINALLY, ONE SIMPLE SOLUTION IS THAT TOP MANAGEMENT SHOULD REDUCE THEIR SALARY AND SAVE FRONT END AND THEIR FAMILIES’ HOPE. IF TOP MANAGEMENT IS WATCHING THIS BLOG THEN MORALLY AND ETHICALLY THEY SHOULD PROPOSE THIS SOLUTION AND ASK NOT TO SAKE FRONT END OR MIDDLE END.GOD BLESS TIMES GROUP.