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11 Midwest Companies Offering Silicon Valley Perks

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...

Anti-H1B posters posted Silicon Valley's train network just before latest visa-filing season!

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...

Mukesh Ambani Investing Rs 10,000 Crore To Create 1 Lakh BUMPER Job Openings

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...

PNB fraud: How Rs 11,300 Cr vanished from 1 a/c

In one of the biggest fraud cases to hit Indian banking, the country's second-largest lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) informed stock exchanges on Wednesday that it has been hit by embezzlement amounting to Rs 11,300 crore at one of its branches in Mumbai. Here is how the fraud took place: 1. The scam started in 2011. We ourselves found out about the fraud and reported it to the concerned agencies, Punjab National Bank (PNB) MD Sunil Mehta said in a presser on Thursday. 2. We detected the fraud on January 3. We got to know that 2 of our employees did some un-authorized transactions. The bank initiated criminal action against our staff members, the PNB MD said. This is a standalone incident. It has taken place only in one of our branches, Mehta said. 3. We have lodged FIRs and complaints. PNB has capability and capacity to come out of this, Mehta said. We have not shirked in our responsibility, he added. 4. On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reg...