Work from Home: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

Latest Work from Home HR Trends, workforce insights, and expert analysis. Stay updated with the latest news on Work from Home.

Updated on: May 2020

Employee Engagement

Contactless engagement is the new normal

May 13, 2020

Axis Bank to adopt WFH as an integral part of work culture

Axis Bank will continue with the Work-From-Home WFH culture even after the coronavirus crisis ends...

Jobs

May 12, 2020

Axis Bank to adopt WFH as an integral part of work culture

Facebook and Google extend work from home till end

Two of the biggest tech companies Facebook and Google have said they will let employees continue wor...

Coronavirus

May 9, 2020

Facebook and Google extend work from home till end

workforce of Tech Mahindra may WFH till March

Tech Mahindra will be giving the liberty to - of its workforce to work from home till March ...

Jobs

May 8, 2020

workforce of Tech Mahindra may WFH till March

Culture & Behaviour

Managing Talent and Culture in Challenging Times

There are two wars being fought right now. We have essential service teams, health workers fighting against the COVID-19, and the chaos it has created across the world. On the other hand, we have the business leaders fighting to sustain their business. “The last few months have kept most CXOs and talent leaders thinking. Thinking of […]

May 7, 2020

Coronavirus

Workplace Trends after COVID-19 is Over

The coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic has affected every workplace in the country in one way or another. As governments make significant interventions in response to the coronavirus, businesses are rapidly adjusting to the changing needs of their people, their customers, and suppliers. Some employers have closed their doors temporarily—and some permanently. Others have asked their employees to […]

May 4, 2020

Coronavirus

POST COVID-19: 75% TCS employees to work from home

According to a report published in Business Today, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will ask 75 percent of its 4.48 lakh employees to work from home by 2025. The new secure borderless workspaces (SBWS) model has improved the company’s velocity by 25%. It means that TCS could shift to WHM as a ‘New-Normal’ once lockdown opens. […]

Apr 25, 2020

Blogosphere

How to Manage Remote Workforce Effectively

With the whole COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is topsy turvy. Jobs are at stake, businesses are wading through troubled waters and livelihoods are being affected. With the onset of this current viral outbreak, the global workforce has been shoved into the realm of remote operations. Strict curfews and lockdowns have resulted in employees working from home (WFH), which is placing organisations […]

Apr 24, 2020

Coronavirus

Twitter: HR Veterans on COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus global pandemic has affected every workplace, in one way or another. The employers have closed their doors temporarily due to lockdown and asked their employees to work from home, Companies have given extra paid or special paid leave or unpaid leave to employees with health concerns. While the worst of the coronavirus outbreak will […]

Apr 14, 2020

Blogosphere

Three key ideas on Tough Times: A perspective from CHRO

What a last couple of weeks it has been! The Covid-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in terms of the scale of the disruption to our normal activities. In India, we are in the middle of a lockdown that has seen organizations accelerate ‘work from home’ on a scale we didn’t think possible some time back. […]

Apr 4, 2020

Hot Topic

Work-Life Balance while working from home

“Be careful what you wish for, it may be granted after all”, goes the age-old adage. How many times have we wished to get a respite from commuting long distances to office, running away from traffic jams, spending more time with family and literally praying and wishing if we could work from home? And just […]

Apr 1, 2020

Blogosphere

Covid-19: HR’s role during a global crisis

No one alive has experienced a global crisis like the Coronavirus and its unprecedented impact on personal and professional lives. Personal and family health will always have priority. We all mourn with those that mourn and we take care of our loved ones. However, with a global time out -caused by travel restrictions, social distancing, closed restaurants […]

Mar 26, 2020

Jobs

10 Mistakes to Avoid While Working From Home

In the current situation, many companies are offering Work From Home, or WFH. I had an opportunity to work from home for about 6 months during my tenure with one of the organizations. I would like to share some of the mistakes that I did and I do not want you to do it. Working […]

Mar 24, 2020

Coronavirus

TCS can’t allow more than 40% of staff to work from home

In the wake of coronavirus outbreak, IT company TCS has allowed its employees to work from home, but the option has been restricted to about 40% of its employees only because, TCS supports mission-critical systems that run public services, banks and stock exchanges, insurance, and healthcare institutions, telecom & utility providers, retail, consumer goods and […]

Mar 21, 2020

Jobs

Khattar appeals to Gurgaon companies ‘Work From Home’

Haryana government has advised all companies operating in Gurugram to ask employees to work from home in the wake of the spreading Coronavirus till the end of March with immediate effect. Gurugram is home to a sizable number of offices of large IT-BPO along with foreign technology bigwigs including the likes of Infosys, Genpact, Google, […]

Mar 18, 2020

Jobs

HUL directs office staff to work from home from Tuesday

The global consumer products company Hindustan Unilever Limited has directed its 4,000 office-based employees in India to work from home, starting Tuesday, 17th March, amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus. “All office-based employees globally should work from home,” Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever said. The information was uploaded on Unilever’s global website as the company, […]

Mar 14, 2020