Tag: remote working

Curaçao, the Dutch Caribbean island, popular for its beaches, coral reefs and marine life, is offering remote workers an opportunity to stay on the...

Tech major, IBM, anticipates its US workforce following a hybrid model of work post pandemic. It expects about 80 per cent of its staff...

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 has decided to allow its employees to choose from three ways of working — flexible, fully remote and office-based. The cloud computing company...

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:...

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...

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 has announced that its employees will work remotely till September 2021. Clearly, the Company has realised that the pandemic is in no hurry...

Apple has no plans of calling its employees back to office before June 2021 as the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, leave...

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...

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...

A ‘pandemic’! We have heard that term time and again over the years. While the impact of pandemics have found mention throughout history, nothing...

Hindustan Unilever does not plan to make the work from home arrangement permanent for its employees. While the Company agrees that the future workplace...

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...

Strategists and Deutsche Bank have proposed a five per cent tax for those who permanently work from home, because of company policy and not...

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....

Keeping in mind the safety of its employees, Wipro has decided to let its staff in India and the US work from home till...

With several companies seriously considering remote working as a permanent arrangement for their employees, the Emirate of Dubai has introduced an initiative wherein professionals...

The ongoing pandemic and its repercussions have forced HR leaders to reassess their game plan. Organisations were forced to shift entire workforces to the...

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 (HCCB), has come up with a policy that allows its employees to work from home permanently if they so wish. For...

The pandemic has led to a majority of the workforce working from home. With remote working come several challenges, most of which revolve around...

Picture this: While briefing the team on an important project, the manager notices one of the team members fiddling with the phone. Although an...

Not much has changed in the world of compliance training even after the shift to remote working. At the same time, HR pundits agree...

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...

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...

People across the globe are yearning for the year 2020 to end fast, with the hope that the dreadful pandemic will get over by...

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...

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...

Being proactive is the right approach as far as flexible working is concerned, and for companies such as Mindtree, shifting towards remote working, was...

In view of the coronavirus pandemic, Spocto, the big data analytics company, has decided to make 50 per cent of its staff work permanently...

The office culture in India has always been about developing warm and rich interpersonal relationships among individuals. Offices across the country are alive with...

Hiring has continued virtually for many organisations across sectors, with candidates settling in to working from home. With no clarity on how long it...

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...

With remote working becoming the new normal, the survey by TimesJobs, titled ‘HR managers & Remote working’ could not have been better timed. As...

During a town hall meeting with its employees on March 21, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, announced his plans to start hiring remote workers by...

During an online class, a student of Seth Anandaram Japuria School, Lucknow, happened to confront his teacher, “I have this wandering fear building up...

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, who are working remotely, have been directed to follow the same system of work until June 1, 2020, as there is no mention...

Lockdown has thrust managers as well as employees into a new situation of remote working, and both of them are experimenting with ways to...

The lockdown has taught us many lessons and also transformed workplace practices like never before. Both the organisation and the employees have enjoyed the...

When reality hits hard, we all get accustomed to the most unexpected situations that come our way. Almost two weeks into the lockdown, each...

Just as space in a relationship is essential to sustain it, space at the workplace is also important. This space should never be compromised,...

As the country has shut down to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, organisations have implemented work from home without much warning or...

Every organisation is trying to find its own way of dealing with the work-from-home situation in these uncertain times. With no clue as to...

Five years ago, the viability of working remotely was the hottest topic of discussion. A lot of questions revolved around whether working from home...