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Updated on: Dec 2021
Meta announces ‘Office Deferral Program’ for employees
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Meta announces ‘Office Deferral Program’ for employees

Meta Platforms Inc said on Tuesday it will fully reopen its U.S. offices on Jan. 31 next year while giving its employees an opportunity to delay their scheduled return by three to five months. The social media giant’s new “office deferral program” will ensure that its employees have flexibility in returning back to offices, Meta said. […]

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Ford delays return-to-work hybrid plan to March amid COVID uncertainty
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Ford delays return-to-work hybrid plan to March amid COVID uncertainty

Ford Motor Co said on Monday it would push its return-to-work hybrid plan to March as the state of the COVID-19 pandemic remained uncertain. The No. 2 U.S. automaker said it will begin a pilot phase for select employees in February and March. The company had previously said it would not return to work under […]

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94% of Indian workers feel well-prepared to work remotely- Atlassian
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94% of Indian workers feel well-prepared to work remotely- Atlassian

Atlassian Corporation Plc, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software and the maker of Jira, Confluence, and Trello products, has announced the launch of a global study into the nuances of modern work and in particular changing attitudes and expectations from workers over the past year. According to Atlassian’s second annual ‘Reworking Work’ […]

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Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10
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Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan. 10

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it is indefinitely pushing back its January return-to-office plan globally amid growing concerns over the Omicron variant of the coronavirus and some resistance to company-mandated vaccinations. Google in August had said it would expect workers to come in about three days a week from Jan. 10 at the earliest, ending […]

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Apple asked employees to return to office from February 1, 2022
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Apple asked employees to return to office from February 1, 2022

Apple has set February 1, 2022, as the return date to office for its employees worldwide, as the tech giant prepares for a hybrid workplace next year. According to a report in The Information, Apple will let employees work for up to four weeks remotely each year. Referring to an internal memo sent to staff […]

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Does Work From Home End at TCS? Nope… It’s Hybrid Now
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Does Work From Home End at TCS? Nope… It’s Hybrid Now

There are various media reports claiming that work from home ends at TCS after November 15, 2021 and creates an impression as all of its 528,748 employees returned back to office. But it’s not true… Actually, the company has taken the very first step towards bringing back employees to offices. TCS is encouraging employees to […]

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PwC allows all its 40,000 employees to work from home for a lifetime
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PwC allows all its 40,000 employees to work from home for a lifetime

According to a CNN report, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), an accounting and consulting giant has introduced a new policy to allow all its 40,000 U.S. client services employees to work from home/ anywhere for a lifetime. Speaking to Reuters, PwC’s deputy people leader Yolanda Seals-Coffield said the firm was the first in its industry to make full-time virtual […]

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PwC offers US employees full-time remote work
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PwC offers US employees full-time remote work

Accounting and consulting firm PwC told Reuters on Thursday it will allow all its 40,000 US client services employees to work virtually and live anywhere they want in perpetuity, making it one of the biggest employers to embrace permanent remote work. The policy is a departure from the accounting industry’s rigid attitudes, known for encouraging people to put in late […]

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How JLL Navigates Hybrid Workplace Rightly
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How JLL Navigates Hybrid Workplace Rightly

How JLL Navigates Hybrid Work Model Rightly A hybrid workplace model is an arrangement where employees make an optimal mix of work from home and office. For example, in 2020, due to the pandemic, most corporates were working from home and as a result, organisations had to experiment with a whole new work-from-home model, including […]

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Back to Work: Never Going Back- TCS Chief Leadership & Diversity Officer
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Back to Work: Never Going Back- TCS Chief Leadership & Diversity Officer

As a growing part of the world population starts to get vaccinated, companies across the world and across industries are looking at what “back to work” will look like. And in that same context, I use “never going back”, taking into account several dimensions. Never going back to the old ways of working and the […]

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Wipro leaders to return to office from tomorrow: Chairman
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Wipro leaders to return to office from tomorrow: Chairman

IT Major, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji on Sunday said its leaders will start returning to office from Monday after 18 months of work from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After 18 long months, our leaders @Wipro are coming back to the office starting tomorrow (twice a week). All fully vaccinated, all ready to go – […]

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Microsoft is scrapping plans to fully reopen offices by Oct 4
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Microsoft is scrapping plans to fully reopen offices by Oct 4

Microsoft Corp is scrapping plans to fully reopen offices by Oct 4, saying it can no longer give a date for returning to work because the pandemic is too unpredictable. “Given the uncertainty of Covid-19, we’ve decided against attempting to forecast a new date for a full reopening of our US work sites in favour […]

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