Twitter is the latest tech company to announce an expanded parental leave policy, offering all new parents 20 weeks of paid time off. The tech industry seems to be leading the way among industries offering robust family leave due to the industry’s notable lack of women.

In the last year, Netflix, Etsy, Facebook, and a handful of others have upgraded their policies to include more workers and more time off than ever. New York and San Francisco also passed landmark leave policies this month, but the majority of workers still rely on their employers for paid family leave. Jeffrey Siminoff, Twitter’s vice president of inclusion and diversity, described the company’s new policy as a way to be “inclusion advancing,” which seemed to mean it seeks to include more employees than ever before.

Tech companies hope that better policies will attract and retain female workers. 

The Make in India campaign dominated the first phase of placement season at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).This season saw more engineering students joining core companies giving a boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative. Added to this  was the efforts of the institutes to give core companies early slots coupled with a conscious choice made by students to pick core companies over fat pay packages offered by non-core ones .At IIT-Delhi, for instance, about 510 students of the 850 who took the placements this year preferred core companies compared with last year’s 350 students who joined such organizations.

Online food ordering platform Foodpanda India has sacked close to 300 employees.Foodpanda India CEO Saurabh Kochhar confirmed the development and said that the company has reduced its workforce by 15% as it has achieved close to 98% automation in order processing. It had about 2,200 people on its rolls.He said ??he automation has resulted in fewer manual interventions, thereby leading to surplus manpower, which was neither benefiting the business nor our people’s careers. Therefore, unfortunately we had to let go of some of our people. However, we are not shutting operations in any city, whatsoever.”
 

Culture Alley , a Jaipur-based startup  will hire 40 people in the next few months to expand its technology and content teams as the user base of its  language learning app, Hello English, grows.The app has over 8 million usersand helps users learn spoken English and grammar and helps build vocabulary.The aim is to have 13-14 million users by March.The company plans to expand the number of modules offered  to cater to the requirements of learners across beginners, intermediate and advanced levels.