New Delhi: French IT consultancy firm Capgemini today said it expects the size of its Indian workforce to grow to about 50 per cent of its total global headcount within the next three to five on the back of organic growth initiatives. The company is tipped to have about 31,000 employees in India by the end of December, 2010, with the net addition of around 11,000 personnel to its payrolls during the course of the year.

"We expect the local market to grow over 40 per cent this year, which will continue next year. In the mid-term, over the next 3-5 years, we expect 50 per cent of our global workforce to come from India through purely organic growth," Capgemini India Executive Chairman Salil Parekh said on sidelines of The Indo-French CEOs Forum here.

While gross employee additions by the company during the year stood at 17,000, the net addition was only about 11,000, he added. The company, which offers consultancy, systems integration, infrastructure management and BPO services, has 40

Homegrown FMCG firm Dabur India today said it is giving its juice brand ''Real'' an image makeover as part of its strategy to garner a sales of Rs 700 crore from its food division in the next three years. The company said it is now focusing to highlight the nutritional aspect of its juices as against the earlier practice of promoting the brand for taste.

"Over the years, consumers have accepted the taste (of Real) and loved it. And, now we are educating consumers about the nutrition aspect of our juices.

Hence, we decided to go for a re-branding," Dabur India Head of Marketing (Foods) K K Chutani told PTI. As part of the exercise, the company has changed the logo and also the packaging of all its Real products. Besides, it has also signed on actress Sonali Bendre to promote the brand.

While the company did not specify details on the investments for the initiative, it is understood to have invested around Rs 8 crore on the whole image makeover exercise of the Real brand. "Real is a more

New Delhi: The next time you apply for a position in a company where your relative is employed, there are chances your application may not find favour. Spread across sectors, quite a few entities have policies that bar relatives of employees from being recruited in the same company, according to HR experts.

"Companies may not want employees to mix their personal life and professional life as this could become a distraction. Family problems or disagreements may affect work culture and also filial or conjugal sentiments may affect professional conduct, impacting work-life balance of members," E.Balaji, Director and President of Ma Foi Randstand, a staffing services firm, told PTI. In many cases, hiring restrictions apply only to the immediate relatives of employees such as spouses or siblings.

Staffing firm Manpower Services India''s Head (Organisational Learning & Marketing) Namr Kishore said that employment of relatives in the same area may cause series of conflicts and problems