Intermiles Offers Opportunities to Earn Daily with Intermiles Everyday

InterMiles, the leading loyalty & rewards programme, has introduced an expanded range of opportunities that will enable members to broad-base their earning potential of the digital rewards currency, InterMiles. ‘InterMiles Everyday’ will enable members to earn assured InterMiles as they conduct their daily transactions.

The lockdown has prompted new habits and behaviors to take hold as members adjusted to a disruption in availability products, access to services and social distancing norms. Taking cognizance of increase in adoption of digital services, InterMiles App will provide meaningful opportunities for members to earn more across activities such as online learning & reading, retail, healthcare, bill payment & recharges, and gift cards, through ‘InterMiles Everyday’.

Mr. Vikas Chandak, Senior VP & Head – Business & Strategic Partnerships, InterMiles said, “We are excited to share with our members that InterMiles earning is no longer occasion driven, it is every day. InterMiles Everyday allows our members to find quick and easy ways to earn InterMiles on a daily basis via our App and engage with various aspects of the program. The pandemic has prompted consumers to actively seek convenient ways of interacting with brands. InterMiles Everyday is in sync with the evolving habits, lifestyle & constraints of our member community and offers instant miles earning opportunities. As we grow InterMiles Everyday, we hope to make the InterMiles earning a very rewarding daily habit.”

As new habits take hold, members are spending a lot more time online – buying, learning, accessing entertainment and building social connections have all become increasingly virtual. Towards making InterMiles earning an everyday habit, InterMiles Everyday has opened a range of fun & engaging activities like Quizzes and Games which members can enjoy while sitting at home. Additionally, encouraging our members to stay fit, InterMiles Everyday will allow members to earn miles for steps they take on a daily basis through its new feature Step to Miles. Through unique partnerships InterMiles enables its members to earn miles for all their online shopping across players like Amazon, Flipkart and Zivame, as well as while learning on Udemy, Economist, TedX and Eduonix. InterMiles is continuously expanding these partnerships towards becoming more relevant on a daily basis.

InterMiles serves as a ubiquitous, alternate currency of choice that members can earn on every spend as well as use accumulated InterMiles for a reward of their choice. Members can continue unlocking rewards across Amazon, Shoppers Stop, Flipkart, and over 2,500 merchandise options on the InterMiles Reward store.

About InterMiles

InterMiles is one of the world’s leading Loyalty & Rewards Programme. - Its ubiquitous rewards and recognition currency, also called InterMiles, helps close to 10 million InterMiles members fulfil their travel and lifestyle aspirations. The program lets members make every day transactions and lifestyle experiences more rewarding by earning InterMiles across, essential services, healthcare, wellness, learning, shopping, dining, travel and more. Members can then redeem these miles for over 2,500 merchandise options.

Is LPOs set to yield $640 Million by 2011?

Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is a growing business segment and is expected to generate an income of $640 million by the year 2011. The industry is also expected to be the fastest growing outsourcing business, according to a report released by the research agency.

The findings based on ValueNotes maintains that India is expected to have a major share in this forecasted revenue from LPO, which will also open huge employment opportunities in India.

"LPOs are seen as a more stable career option than opportunities in the mainstream IT and ITeS sector.

Unlike other segments in outsourcing, the LPO segment has seen a robust growth even during recessionary times, thus providing a stable career option," said Lokendra Tomar, Chief Operating Officer, Asia-Pacific, Integreon, a LPO firm.

The LPO industry will be generating employment opportunities for all the lawyersincluding lawyers, graduates, freshers and MBAs.

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Over 121,000 Filipinos' jobs axed amid global recession

Over 121,000 Filipino workers have either lost their jobs or suffered pay cuts or reduced work loads because of the economic crisis, a government official said Sunday.

Between October last year and mid-March, 11,574 permanently lost their jobs and 38,806 others were temporarily laid off by Philippines-based companies, Labour Undersecretary Rosalinda Baldoz told an economic forum in this industrial enclave north of Manila.

A total of 59,149 others were placed on flexible work arrangements, she added.

Meanwhile, 12,000 out of the 8.5 million-strong Filipino work force abroad had lost their jobs, mostly in Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to Baldoz.

Last week the government said electronics firms based in the Philippines began giving their remaining workers half-pay or 150 pesos (3.11 dollars) a day in a bid to keep them employed until demand picks up again.

The labour undersecretary said the electronics sector was the worst hit with almost half the total work force affected.

The crisis has also hit about 10 per cent of employees in the automotive, garments, mining, property, services, and woodworking industries, she added.

She went on to say the government expects the crisis to bottom out over the next few months as just 397 workers a day were losing their jobs in mid-March compared to 437 at the start of the month.

"Before the first semester ends, we could say that the worst is over," she said.

"In the next five months, workers' displacements will continue but we expect it to be on a slower pace and only in the export manufacturing sector."

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Is Infosys eyeing acquisitions in the US?

Indian software major Infosys Technologies Ltd expects to find acquisition opportunities in the US during the downturn, co-chairman Nandan Nilekani was quoted as saying.

"Acquisitions will definitely be very accessible in this market from a price point of view," Nilekani told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. "If it makes sense, we'll do it."

Companies that operate in the healthcare and pharmaceuticals sectors might make particularly interesting targets, he said, adding that Infosys has $2 billion in cash and no debt.

In the interview, Nilekani reiterated Infosys's earlier guidance of about 12 per cent revenue growth for the fiscal year ending March 31. That would be a sharp deceleration from growth of 35 per cent, as measured by the US accounting rules, in the year ended March 31, 2008.

Nilekani told the Journal that potential customers are holding back both because of the economic crisis and a rise in protectionist sentiment.

On the economic crisis, Nilekani said "I've never seen this level of lack of clarity." He said executives are "more focused on short-term tactical issues" than making bigger decisions about outsourcing.

In response, Nilekani said Infosys is working with customers on alternative payment arrangements, including some that would link fees to business results. Other customers are asking to pay on a per-transaction basis, rather than a lump sum for a system.

Nilekani said rising protectionist sentiment in the US also is affecting customers' decision-making about outsourcing.

The economic stimulus bill, for example, includes a provision preventing participants in the US' financial bailout programme from hiring workers with H-1B visas, which are commonly used by the non-US outsourcing companies.

"Political issues have become more pre-eminent in our conversations," he added.

Partly for that reason, he told the journal that he does not know whether more the US firms will lay off domestic workers and move more jobs to India, as International Business Machines Corp plans to do, Nilekani said.

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Will Common service centres generate 400,000 jobs in India?

The government's common service centre (CSS) initiative will generate around 400,000 direct employment opportunities and as many as indirect jobs in rural India, a top government official said here on Thursday.

"The scheme was likely to generate over 400,000 direct jobs opportunities as well as indirect employment avenues of a like number in rural India," Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar told reporters after inaugurating a conference on 'Common Service Centres: The Change Agents'.

The CSC is a government-run one-stop shop that offers web-enabled e-governance services in rural areas, including various application forms, certificates, and utility payments such as electricity, telephone and water bills.

"The scheme was structured to promote rural entrepreneurship. By creating appropriate support structures that enable demand-driven services as well as capacity building and training, entrepreneurs can be empowered as change agents for rapid socio-economic change in rural India," he said.

Earlier, while inaugurating the conference, Chandrasekhar said inclusive growth and rural empowerment were the major goals of the CSC initiative.

He added that the government would set up 100,000 CSCs across the country under the public-private partnership model by year-end.

Last month, Communications and IT Minister A. Raja had said that the government would invest Rs.57.42 billion (Rs.5,742 crore) for setting up CSCs.

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