Tag: Work from Home
Wipro’s senior ranks resume office today, others to work from home...
Starting today, that is, September 13, 2021, the leaders at Wipro will work from office twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, reveals a...
Facebook staff to work from home till January 2022
Facebook has no plans to get its employees to return to office before January 2022. Earlier, in June, the tech company had said it...
Should work-from-home invite salary adjustments?
Work-from-home’ wasn’t a common practice before the pandemic-induced global shutdown. However, due to the unprecedented times and the desperate measures that had to be...
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,...
Uber becomes generous, offers more flexibility to employees
Uber Technologies, which had earlier expected its employees to work from home for up to two days a week, and from office the rest...
Companies in the US seek vaccination details of staff
Ahead of implementing ‘return to office’, many organisations are updating their employee records with the vaccination status of the staff. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
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...
KPMG to introduce hybrid work model for UK staff
KPMG, the consultancy firm, has announced flexible and hybrid model work for its 16,000 employees in the UK. The staff will be given an...
Companies reset ‘soft skill parameters’ for remote working
It’s now given that ‘work from home’ is here to stay for ever or for long. In fact, many organisations in the technology space...
Weekly 3 days of WFH for Deutsche Bank staff
Deutsche Bank will let its employees work from home for up to three days in a week, in an attempt to offer them more...
Only 50% bank staff to work in Gujarat, business hours reduced...
The state government of Gujarat has permitted banks to operate with half the staff till April 30. The business hours have also been reduced...
Has pandemic curbed the sycophants?
It is still debatable whether or not such individuals are significant to an organisation, but sycophants are found in every organisation and in every...
Facebook allows staff to continue WFH, hints at pay variability
Facebook is allowing its employees to apply for permanent work-from-home or remote working roles, with approval from their superiors or managers. The social- media...
AP Secretariat employees want to be allowed to work from home
Following the loss of two of their colleagues to corona, the Secretariat employees of Andhra Pradesh, have requested the state government to allow them...
All offices in Maha closed, 100% WFH for staff
With the number of COVID cases rising across the country, the state of Maharashtra seems to be the worst hit. With 57,000 cases being...
Staff of Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru, return to WFH, as COVID risk...
Goldman Sachs has ordered its employees to go back to working from home (WFH), as COVID cases in Bengaluru began to rise once again....
81% Indians insecure about jobs, stability in future: Survey
Looks like the experiences of the past year have made people insecure about their jobs and future, worldwide. But Indians, in particular, seem to...
Permanent WFH option for 30K Ford employees
Ford Motor Co. has allowed its workforce to work from home forever and come to the office only if they wish to. That means,...
22% growth in freelance jobs in Jan 2019 to 2021: Survey
The demand for freelancers shot up in May – June 2020, showing a two-fold increase as compared to the same time period in 2019....
How DICV will ensure 20% women on shop floor by 2022
A lot has changed in the last nine months. While remote working has brought in a complete shift in mindset and work culture, diversity...
Compensation restructuring, reduced salaries for remote workers
The pandemic has forced most companies to adopt remote working or the work-from-home (WFH) model for their employees. Many organisations have even adopted it...
20-25% Paytm staff to continue WFH in the future
Paytm has realised that with remote working, new hires can be taken on from small cities, without them having to relocate to its offices...
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...
Flipkart allows unlimited bereavement leave, WFH till May, 2021
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Intel, and other IT companies, Flipkart has also allowed its 12,000-strong workforce to work from home till May...
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...
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...
WFH for 50% staff in non-essential services: Delhi govt order
Delhi government has issued an order for 50 per cent non-essential service workers to work from home, and advised private establishments to do the...
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...
4 days of WFH a week for Hong Kong HSBC staff
HSBC, Hong Kong, will allow its staff greater flexibility for work, by allowing them to work at least four days a week from their...
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....
Tata Steel to follow ‘agile working models’ policy
The new work model Tata Steel has announced for its employees will make it possible for them to work from home for up to...
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...
77% Indians stopped enjoying WFH with extension of lockdown: Study
Although most people have been working from home for over seven months now, not all professionals in India have embraced remote working wholeheartedly. A...
4 Deloitte offices to close in UK; WFH contract for staff
Deloitte, the global accounting and consulting firm, will shut down four out of its 50 offices in Britain. However, all the employees, that is,...
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...
Employees get option to relocate to smaller cities with pay cut
American financial services and SaaS company, Stripe is doling out $20,000 to its employees if they opt to relocate from Seattle, New York, San...
Google to ensure content moderation on internal message boards
After noticing that its employees have been sharing their opinions generously on its internal message boards — Dory and Memegen — while working from...
How cultural changes will ensure success for the new hybrid work...
Microsoft Teams handles about 200 million meeting participants each day, that is, a whopping 4.1 billion minutes of meetings! This data points to a...
Flexi hours, WFH most desired by APAC workers: Study
It seems that as we progress into the future, more people are becoming accustomed to the new way of working and would want to...
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...
RPG decides extent of work-from-home for staff
Harsh Goenka led RPG Group has announced that its sales force will permanently work from home (WFH). And for the rest of the functions,...
Airbnb gives longest WFH extension — till August 21
Airbnb employees can now work remotely until the end of August 21 next year. The Company’s decision comes at a time when the pandemic...
How personalised & curated digital learning is the recipe for successful...
Personalised and curated digital learning can help create time-efficient, relevant and targeted corporate training programmes.
In an evolving business landscape, learning and development (L&D) and...
Make mental health a part of your return-to-work plan
While people typically tend to resent change, the past year and a half has been fraught with changes and challenges, which were unavoidable. We...
Job seekers can stay in Germany for 6 months to hunt...
The job-seeker visa for the Country is a long-term residency permit, which allows applicants six months to hunt for a job, and grants them...
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How Jindal Stainless is leveraging tech to achieve its learning goals
Jindal Stainless (JSL), a big name in the steel-manufacturing industry of India, is revamping its learning function to prepare its workforce for the coming...
Ola Electric launches 10,000-strong all-women plant
As part of its next phase of production, Ola Electric has established an all-women shopfloor for the #Futurefactory. Eventually, the plant, in Tamil Nadu,...
Unrest amongst Apple workforce?
Of late, many accounts of harassment, pay disparity, sexual and verbal abuse, retaliation and discrimination have come to the fore at Apple, along with...
MediaTek to hire across India, scale up R&D
In a bid to strengthen its position as a leading global chipset provider, Media Tek, the global fabless semiconductor company is preparing to hire...
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“If CEO is the father of an organisation, CHRO is the mother,” Pankaj Lochan
Q. You have been shuttling between HR and manufacturing roles. Was it a well-thought out strategy or did you just go with the flow...
Binding multi-faceted employees with Titan Values
Titan has different sets of employees for different functions and verticals, ranging from the shopfloor to the retail stores. How do you bring in...
The right people policy for startups – Madan Nagaldinne
You happen to have worked mostly with large organisations. How different is it working for a startup now?
When you have worked for big...
