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Updated on: Aug 2023
Zoom ends WFH, X user reacts ‘if the firm has an office
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Zoom ends WFH, X user reacts ‘if the firm has an office

Video conferencing platform, Zoom has ended work-from-home and asked all of its employees to report back to the office. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in a memo to employees, ‘We believe that the best way to build Zoom is to have our people together. We need to be able to collaborate and innovate face-to-face.” “As a […]

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Google, HP, Cognizant, Accenture: Work from Office Policies
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Google, HP, Cognizant, Accenture: Work from Office Policies

Return to office (RTO) is a coordinated plan to safely bring back employees to the workplace. Companies are updating their policies to lure employees back to workplace and Work from Office. However, few companies are keeping the work from Home option open. IT and Tech major companies including TCS, Accenture, IBM, Google, and Infosys, etc are […]

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Accenture in India tweaks its leave policy
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Accenture in India tweaks its leave policy

An Irish-American professional services company, Accenture has revised its leave policy for India. The company has categorized its new eaves under three categories. Firstly, the company will be providing earned leaves to its employees. It has been reduced from 24 to 18. Secondly, the employees will be benefited from casual leaves and sick leaves have been […]

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Extra sleep, breakfast: Google offers on-campus hotel to lure staff for WFO
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Extra sleep, breakfast: Google offers on-campus hotel to lure staff for WFO

An American multinational technology company, Google is offering a “Summer Special” program for employees aiming to ease hybrid work and travel time, and enjoy “delicious food.” According to CNBC, employees can book a room at an on-campus hotel in Mountain View for $99 a night in what it’s deeming a “Summer Special”. The internal material, as […]

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Cognizant doesn’t mandate its employees to Return to Office
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Cognizant doesn’t mandate its employees to Return to Office

An American multinational information technology services, Cognizant is not mandating its employees to return to the office any time soon. “We did express that social capital is important as we have freshers in the mix who will need hand-holding. It won’t be impactful if the managers don’t come to work. We will have a more […]

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Citigroup is monitoring WFO, low attendance may lead to losing job
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Citigroup is monitoring WFO, low attendance may lead to losing job

An American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation, Citigroup UK to start monitoring employees’ office attendance. Citigroup will now focus on employees those who are taking advantage of hybrid work. Additionally, it will check the employees who have repeatedly avoided coming into the office without reason. According to Business Insider, the attendance of the employees […]

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Air India to introduce new appraisal system for non-flying staff
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Air India to introduce new appraisal system for non-flying staff

A fully owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, Air India will introduce a new appraisal system for non-flying staff. Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson said in his weekly message to staff, “Rise.AI will introduce a fair, transparent, and completely digitised appraisal system, with clearly defined job descriptions and specific performance goals so that all our […]

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Lyft CEO updates WFH policy employees to come office for snacks
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Lyft CEO updates WFH policy employees to come office for snacks

An American company offering mobility as a service company, Lyft CEO has updated Work-from-Home (WFH) policy. According to reports published by the New York Times in April, The employees would need to return to the office at least three days a week, each week beginning in the autumn. The company’s CEO David Risher thinks that office […]

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Wipro’s Capco India Sends Employees on Garden Leaves
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Wipro’s Capco India Sends Employees on Garden Leaves

Capco India, a subsidiary of Wipro Limited has sent some of its employees on Garden Leave, handing over 2 to 3 months’ pay. What Is Garden Leave? A garden leave refers to the period during which an employee stays away from the workplace, or works remotely during the notice period. The employee remains on the payroll […]

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Companies implement processes to encourage employees WFO
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Companies implement processes to encourage employees WFO

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented turmoil and companies forced employees to work from home (WFH) by leveraging information technology. However, returning to the office after more than two years of working remotely marks another significant shift in how we work—and it brings with it some major opportunities. For a couple of months, companies have […]

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Amazon is asking some employees to relocate, here’s why
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Amazon is asking some employees to relocate, here’s why

An American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, Amazon is asking some corporate workers to relocate to other cities as part of its return-to-office policy. The announcement follows when the company earlier mandated employees to work from the office three days a week. As per reports, however, the company hasn’t decided the number of employees […]

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Company Bans Late-Night Work, Improved Fertility Rate
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Company Bans Late-Night Work, Improved Fertility Rate

The Chief Executive Officer of Japanese general trading company Itochu Corp. has banned Late-Night Work and Overtime in the company. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Masahiro Okafuji had decided that working in the office after 8 pm should be banned. Additionally, the CEO also decided that there would be no more overtime pay for working late without […]

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