Tag: remote working
“Work from anywhere, with no change in compensation”: Airbnb CEO to...
Realising that the pandemic did not hamper productivity even though the workforce was working remotely, Brian Chesky, CEO, Airbnb, wrote to his employees that...
AP government will provide work spaces for remote-working professionals
In a bid to facilitate the work from home/ hybrid culture of work, the Government of Andhra Pradesh has announced that it will provide...
85% Googlers’ requests for relocation, remote working accepted
Of the about 10,000 Googlers who applied for permission to work remotely or relocate, 85 per cent received approval. About 55 per cent of...
Cisco bats for hybrid work, centres of collaboration
Cisco is all for the hybrid work model. It will allow its employees to opt for permanent work from home if they so wish....
Britain to lift WFH restrictions on July 19
Britain has announced the lifting of all COVID-19 related restrictions. Starting July 19, people can move about without wearing face masks or maintaining social...
Apple insists on 3 days in office, staff seek resist
Not long ago, Apple had communicated its return to office policy to its workforce, requiring everyone to come into office thrice a week. However,...
Extroverts, the real victims of remote working: how are they coping?
If humans are social animals, extroverts are the torchbearers. In any organisation, the extroverts are the ones who draw from the energy around them...
Why people miss ‘commute time’ in WFH
A year ago, when people started working from home, there was a sigh of relief. People were happy that they wouldn’t have to travel...
32% women plan to hold on to their present jobs for...
The remote working situation has been harder on women than on men, given the fact that women professionals have had to struggle to manage...
Curacao invites remote workers to work from the island for 6...
Curaçao, the Dutch Caribbean island, popular for its beaches, coral reefs and marine life, is offering remote workers an opportunity to stay on the...
Parents at IBM, US, may work 100% remotely till schools reopen
Tech major, IBM, anticipates its US workforce following a hybrid model of work post pandemic. It expects about 80 per cent of its staff...
47% Indian tech firms ready to offer flexibility to lure talent:...
Due to the pandemic, the year 2020, saw the hiring activity plummeting. There was an 18 per cent dip in hiring in India last...
Salesforce to allow staff choice of daily work schedule
Salesforce has decided to allow its employees to choose from three ways of working — flexible, fully remote and office-based. The cloud computing company...
What are the Top 5 trending skills in India?
A study by Udemy, about the workplace learning trends across workplaces in the Asia-Pacific, reveals that the top five skills trending in India are:...
WFH for Wipro employees till April 2021
Wipro has extended work-from-home for its employees till April 4, 2021. About 98 per cent of the tech company’s workforce is already working remotely...
Hybrid work model is Infosys’ preference
Considering the uncertainty surrounding the workplace owing to the ongoing pandemic, Infosys prefers the flexibility of a hybrid model of work for its employees....
Google extends WFH till Sept 2021, to test ‘flexible work week’
Google has announced that its employees will work remotely till September 2021. Clearly, the Company has realised that the pandemic is in no hurry...
Apple, Facebook to continue WFH for most employees until June, 2021
Apple has no plans of calling its employees back to office before June 2021 as the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, leave...
WFH extended for Karnataka’s IT employees
Karnataka’s deputy chief minister has asked employees of the information technology (IT) companies in the state to continue working from home, as the number...
Distance bias – A new reality or an old prejudice amplified?
COVID-19 has been quite cruel, but it has also opened up vast possibilities in terms of work-life balance. The biggest paradigm shift is, of...
How to infuse positivity into your remote-working workforce
A ‘pandemic’! We have heard that term time and again over the years. While the impact of pandemics have found mention throughout history, nothing...
Permanent WFH arrangement not being considered for HUL staff
Hindustan Unilever does not plan to make the work from home arrangement permanent for its employees. While the Company agrees that the future workplace...
Pandemic has made 83% Indian professionals keen to learn and train...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way the corporate world works. With the remote working culture here to stay, 53 per cent employees in...
Post-COVID, remote working should to be taxed: Deutsche Bank
Strategists and Deutsche Bank have proposed a five per cent tax for those who permanently work from home, because of company policy and not...
75,000 StanChart staff may adopt flexible work options permanently by 2023
Standard Chartered is gearing up to offer flexible work models to almost 75,000 of its employees across 55 markets, in the next three years....
Wipro staff will work remotely till January 2021
Keeping in mind the safety of its employees, Wipro has decided to let its staff in India and the US work from home till...
Remote workers from any country can now relocate to Dubai annually
With several companies seriously considering remote working as a permanent arrangement for their employees, the Emirate of Dubai has introduced an initiative wherein professionals...
60% Canonites claim higher productivity during remote working
The ongoing pandemic and its repercussions have forced HR leaders to reassess their game plan. Organisations were forced to shift entire workforces to the...
Can remote working dent creativity and innovativeness?
Without doubt, the benefits of working from home are many. Employers are cutting down on costs, while employees feel they are more productive. Tata...
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages makes WFH permanent for employees
Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), has come up with a policy that allows its employees to work from home permanently if they so wish. For...
Will terminating underperformers safeguard the remote working setup from toxicity?
The pandemic has led to a majority of the workforce working from home. With remote working come several challenges, most of which revolve around...
How some micro-behaviours can be fatal during remote working
Picture this: While briefing the team on an important project, the manager notices one of the team members fiddling with the phone. Although an...
Compliance training is serious business for IT during WFH
Not much has changed in the world of compliance training even after the shift to remote working. At the same time, HR pundits agree...
Uber extends work-from-home for employees till June 2021
Following in the footsteps of Google, ride-hailing company, Uber, has announced the extension of its work-from-home (WFH) policy through June 2021.
However, employees may also...
How PNB MetLife’s workforce is coping with the virtual model
Out of the total of 107 branches in the country, PNB MetLife has managed to open close to 89 branches till now.
However, not everyone...
How PepsiCo India has been re-strategising its workforce since the pandemic
People across the globe are yearning for the year 2020 to end fast, with the hope that the dreadful pandemic will get over by...
A slew of activities keeps the Flipkart workforce engaged
Traditionally, employee-engagement activities have enabled organisations to nurture common interests among employees, while familiarising them with the organisational culture. These engagement activities not only...
Amazon extends WFH policy for corporate staff to 2021
After Facebook and Google, Amazon is the latest to extend the work-from-home policy which will be applicable only to the corporate employees until January...
With 100% telecommuters, how is Mindtree ensuring productivity?
Being proactive is the right approach as far as flexible working is concerned, and for companies such as Mindtree, shifting towards remote working, was...
50% of Spocto staff to work from home permanently
In view of the coronavirus pandemic, Spocto, the big data analytics company, has decided to make 50 per cent of its staff work permanently...
Why we all miss ‘the office’: Changing workplace relationships
The office culture in India has always been about developing warm and rich interpersonal relationships among individuals. Offices across the country are alive with...
Importance of culture fit in post-COVID hiring
Hiring has continued virtually for many organisations across sectors, with candidates settling in to working from home. With no clarity on how long it...
Only 39% HR professionals feel remote working is effective: Report
As per the latest edition of the LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index, which surveyed 2,903 professionals across India, March, April and May saw many companies...
Concerns about job security, workplace policies grew during pandemic: Survey
With remote working becoming the new normal, the survey by TimesJobs, titled ‘HR managers & Remote working’ could not have been better timed. As...
Facebook plans to aggressively open up remote hiring by July 2020
During a town hall meeting with its employees on March 21, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, announced his plans to start hiring remote workers by...
A teacher’s work life during lockdown
During an online class, a student of Seth Anandaram Japuria School, Lucknow, happened to confront his teacher, “I have this wandering fear building up...
Apple plans to get few employees back to offices soon
At a time when most global tech companies have either decided to allow all their employees to work from home (WFH) for another year,...
Google employees are mandated to work from home until June, 2020:...
Google employees, who are working remotely, have been directed to follow the same system of work until June 1, 2020, as there is no mention...
Gartner’s NEAR model for remote-employee management
Lockdown has thrust managers as well as employees into a new situation of remote working, and both of them are experimenting with ways to...
Will the workplace be more flexible post lockdown?
The lockdown has taught us many lessons and also transformed workplace practices like never before. Both the organisation and the employees have enjoyed the...