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If you think you have to live in California to score perks like free lunch, unlimited vacation and a dog-friendly office, think again! Midwest companies in Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Missouri have hopped on the benefits bandwagon to give Silicon Valley businesses a run for their money. Calling all job seekers in the Heartland, here are 11 midwest companies offering Silicon Valley-style perks to employees. Luckily for you, each of these businesses is hiring right now. Get the benefits you deserve by applying today! Total Quality Logistics (TQL)  Perks & Benefits:  TQL offers adoption assistance, remote work, tuition reimbursement, paid job training, legal assistance, identity theft protection, gym reimbursement (a free gym at HQ), and more. TQL also offers its employees access to hundreds of exclusive discounts at some of their favorite local and national merchants. TQL offers a free Kids Club program where employees dependent children receive annua...

r Recently, the thought of the H1B visa is being extremely scrutinized in the public square of the world's most sparkling IT hub. Anti-H1B posters have been put in famous Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART) train stations, which travel through the centre of San Francisco Bay Area. The posters will remain there for no less than an entire month in the midst of the new H1B filing season which opens 2 April through an advertisement campaign worth of $80,000. BART is one of the busiest rapid transport systems in the US with an average of around 425,000 everyday passengers and approximately 124 million yearly passengers in the 2017 financial year. As per Bay Area newspapers, at least three stations — Civic Centre, Oakland's 12th Street and 19th Street are marquee locations. Sponsored by Progressives for Immigration Reform, this anti H1B advertisement campaign is setting off the fumes among the sentiments of anti-immigrants that put Trump into the White House. Twit...

Tata Consultancy Services gets nearly $2 billion in revenue a year from  analytics , the company’s CEO  Rajesh Gopinathan  told ET in an interview, making it the largest chunk of its digital revenue. India’s largest IT company gets over 22% of its overall revenue from digital — a number that will be well over $3 billion for the financial year ending March 2018. This is the first time  TCS  has defined the contribution of the business segment that makes up the overall digital revenue figure. Last year, TCS appointed Dinanath Kholkar, who used to run its $2-billion business process outsourcing business, to head its analytics division. “Analytics in itself will be equal to the portfolio he (Kholkar) was running earlier. Analytics was distributed across a very wide set and once we are done bringing it together, we will have to think how we report it and all, but we run probably one of the largest analytics groups,” Gopinathan said. The IT firm’s $2.5-bil...

Everybody is talking about DevOps and agile practices. Enterprises that implement DevOps and agile practices together have observed significant business success. A survey released by CA Technologies and Freeform Dynamics covers 1300 executives from various organizations. 75% of the organizations have fully embraced DevOps and agile practices. These organizations report 60% higher rate of revenue and profit growth. Only a small proportion of the organizations believe that the need for consistency, breadth, and depth needs to be high. Enterprises that adopt DevOps and agile in a comprehensive manner are usually non-traditional in nature. These organizations are forward-thinking, open to innovation and participative. The organizations that really need a good dose of DevOps and agile are not adopting these practices in the manner that they should. The uninspired companies are assuming that they don’t first go out of the business. In order to avoid being disrupted, they ma...

There are plenty of concerns about the impact of AI and automation on the IT industry. The Indian companies are worried about losing quality revenue due to emerging automation technologies. Indian IT industry heavily relies on Business Process Management (BPM) services that require low skilled professionals. However changing nature of BPM and IT industry, evolving skill profiles and cyber security have created new opportunities for the IT firms. Keshav Murugesh, CEO of Mumbai-based WNS Group believes that companies need to adopt disruptive delivery models to retain the customers. People think that all traditional IT businesses will fall off the cliff and BPM companies will go down. But by adopting disruptive delivery models, BPM companies can still impress and interest new clients. WNS Group operates from 13 countries and employee 35,000 employees. The company is trying to get clients outsource work that is strategically done. New-age competition According to Muru...

It is no news that IT workers are looking at AI and automation as a big threat. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can solve a number of problems in the country In his monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio broadcast, he emphasized on how AI can solve a number of issues in the country. He deliberately focused on how ‘Artificial Intelligence’ can help the country in solving problems like differently abled persons, tracking natural disasters, assisting farmers and extending health services. PMO Modi is keen on learning more about the real-world use cases of AI and automation. If artificial intelligence is harnessed and implemented in a right way, it can add a huge benefit to the society. With the large population and digital literacy, India has a great pool of data that we can use for creating highly-advanced AI technologies. He said, “It was interesting to know about the ongoing miraculous accomplishments in the field of science. Artifi...

Speaking at the two-day-long Uttar Pradesh Investors' Summit 2018 in Lucknow, Reliance Jio chairman, Mukesh Ambani, on Wednesday (February 21) expressed his support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "dream" of transforming the state. During his speech at the summit, which aimed at showcasing investment opportunities and potential across various sectors in Uttar Pradesh, Ambani said that ensuring Uttar Pradesh's development is his "patriotic duty", and promised increased investment in the state.  Here are the key takeaways from his speech: Jio to invest Rs 10,000 crore in infrastructure: Reliance Jio became one of the biggest telecom operators in the country overnight after Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Jio invested Rs 2.5 lakh crores in setting up a state-of-the- art 4G network. However, a major chunk of this investment was used by the company to make inroads into the most populous state of the country - Uttar Pradesh. However, despit...

The 2018 Data & Analytics Global Executive Study and Research Report by   MIT Sloan Management Review   finds that innovative, analytically mature organizations make use of data from multiple sources: customers, vendors, regulators, and even competitors. The report, based on   MIT SMR ’s eighth annual data and analytics global survey of over 1,900 business executives, managers, and analytics professionals, explores companies leading the way with analytics and customer engagement. BIGGER HARVESTS, BETTER RELATIONSHIPS For many U.S. farmers, improving agricultural productivity while meeting consumer demand to reduce the use of pesticides and chemicals on crops became a goal during the 2000s. To help farmers manage pests, plant diseases, weather conditions, and yields, dozens of startups emerged to offer apps and data services — part of a precision agriculture boom. Many of these companies failed or struggled as data alone proved insufficient; farmers also ne...