Back to Office: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Dec 2021

Industry

Meta announces Office Deferral Program for employees

Dec 8, 2021

Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan.

Alphabet Incs Google said on Thursday it is indefinitely pushing back its January return-to-o...

Industry

Dec 3, 2021

Google delays mandatory return to office beyond Jan.

TCS asks employees to return to the deputed location by November

According to ET report, Indias largest IT services provider company, Tata Consultancy Services TCS...

Industry

Oct 15, 2021

TCS asks employees to return to the deputed location by November

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 a...

Future of Work

Sep 22, 2021

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

Industry

TCS may bring employees Back to Office by this year-end or early 2022

According to media reports, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will ask its employees to come back to office by 2021-end with majority of them likely to get both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan said to media “We expect that sometime towards the end of the calendar year or early next year, and […]

Sep 15, 2021

Industry

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 […]

Sep 11, 2021

Culture & Behaviour

Allowances & Incentive to Call Employees Back to Workplace

Return to Workplace This is the contention that we are dealing with at the moment amidst the Covid-19 pandemic which is definitely not an inaugural pandemic that the world is facing. But what makes it challenging is that Covid-19 is the first pandemic of its kind that is expected to have an indelible, deep-rooted, transformational, […]

Sep 3, 2021

Industry

Google delays office return until January next year, CEO Sundar Pichai

Alphabet Inc-owned Google is extending its voluntary return-to-office policy through January next year, CEO Sundar Pichai said on Tuesday, citing uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in many parts of the world. The rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant is also making companies reconsider their mask mandates and vaccination policies. “Beyond January 10, we will enable […]

Sep 1, 2021

Industry

What is Wipro’s plan to bring employees back to office

IT major, Wipro is working on a plan to bring more employees Back to Office. As the second wave of COVID-19 subsides and vaccination ramp-ups, most of the companies around the world are working on plans to bring their employees back to the office. In an interview with SightsIn Plus, Saurabh Govil, President & CHRO, Wipro […]

Aug 26, 2021

Industry

JPMorgan mandates masks for employees in US offices

JPMorgan Chase & Co employees in the United States will be required to wear masks in public indoor settings and in common areas within its offices regardless of their vaccination status, the bank told staff in a memo on Friday. The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States due to the Delta variant and new guidance from the U.S. Centers for […]

Aug 7, 2021

Individual Milestone

How QualityKiosk Plans Return to Workplace

How QualityKiosk Plans Return to Workplace The pandemic has advanced years to our lives. What was earlier being planned for the future has suddenly been advanced to “now” and this defines the new normal, which is changing rapidly. In a way, the normal has now become a moving normal which has compelled us to be […]

Aug 4, 2021

New HR Trends

Top Challenges in Getting Employees Back to Office

Top Challenges in Getting Employees Back to Office A recent study by Barco ClickShare, in June 2021, indicated that 75% of employees want to be back in the office. Another survey by Office Pass TOP indicated that Indians are cautious but waiting eagerly to be back to work and the most sought-after format is 3-4 […]

Aug 3, 2021

New HR Trends

Return to Workplace – Managing Employee Anxiety in the Workplace

Return to Workplace – Managing Employee Anxiety in the Workplace The future has always been uncertain and unseen. Our ability to visualize future helps us to understand tomorrow and prepare ourselves in advance for the possible obstacles and opportunities. However, sometimes the situation may catch us unprepared. This is what happened when the entire world hit the […]

Aug 2, 2021

Human Resources

Havells India CHRO V Krishnan on Safely Return to Office

In Conversation With V Krishnan Chief Human Resources Officer Havells India on Return to Office V Krishnan is headlining the HR functions with Havells as Chief Human Resources Officer from the month of February this year. Earlier he served the longest stint of his career at Dabur India as Executive Director – HR (India & […]

Jul 27, 2021

Industry

Infosys reopens offices to get back on track

Indian outsourcing giant Infosys told employees last week they could resume work from offices, according to a memo seen by Reuters that offers an early sign of the country’s $190 billion technology services sector moving to get back on track. The Bengaluru-based IT services company stopped short of calling all employees back to work, reflecting wider caution […]

Jul 22, 2021

New HR Trends

How to Bring Employees Back to Workplace

Apple asked its employees to come back to workplace. In return, Apple got a long letter explaining why Apple should not ask people to come back to workplace at the rate that they had planned for. Thousands of Apple employees signed the letter of protest. This is not just the case for Apple in particular. […]

Jul 19, 2021