This doesn’t augur well for the local language content space: Webdunia, the internet arm of the Nai Dunia Group of publications has asked its employees in Kerala to move to Chennai: T. Sasimohan, Editor of the Malayalam portal was asked alongwith 9 employees to join the Chennai operations on Jan 1st. Pankaj Jain, COO of Webdunia, however, has told IANS that the Malayalam portal will remain operational, and some employees may work from home.
Webdunia is also providing language content to Yahoo India, so it is unlikely that they will shut down the Malayalam segment alltogether. This appears to be a cost-cutting move, with the operations being consolidated in Chennai. Apart from Malayalam and English, Webdunia has portals for Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi.
Earlier, last month, Zapak had scaled down operations in Bangalore, and asked employees to move to Mumbai.
Update: we’ve modified the headline – as correctly pointed out by the company, Webdunia has closed its Trivandrum ops, not Malayalam ops, since the portal will remain active.
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zapak for sure was going to close down. the market rumour says they had spent to much of money with no returns and they have foolish engineering and product team who in turn is fooling the management with heavy politics. i hope the management opens its eyes to such foolish activities or else they would go down like a big empty ship.
It seems webdunia is cleverly retrenching its Trivandrum employees including its Editor ,knowing and confirming that nobody can relocate to Chennai.
No compensation is offered.No suport package or hike is given to them while asking them to shift to Indias one of the biggest metros.
Their Chennai office in deep[ trouble as the company is unable to pay the huge rent and they are looking for a cost effective office far away from Chennai proper.
Chennai office staff is worried over the rumours that the Chennai unit is eventually shifted to Indre, The Webdunia HQ
Whoever is this Mr Guest: How do you know they have not been paid any compensation? How do you know that Chennai office is in trouble? This is nothing but bad mouthing by in-capable employee who is frustrated and writing all bad about company who has given bread and butter to them. This is shame… I hope no one gives job to people who doesnt even respect their job and their organization.