Work from Home: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Feb 2022

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These companies have shifted to permanent WFH for all employees

Feb 16, 2022

COVID- third wave subsides in India, what people prefer WFH or WFO?

With the COVID- pandemic bringing unprecedented changes in work life, a study has revealed that ...

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Feb 15, 2022

COVID- third wave subsides in India, what people prefer WFH or WFO?

TCS, Wipro, Cognizant planning to resume Return To Office soon

Does WFH end? TCS, Wipro, Cognizant planning to resume Return To Office from next mont...

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Feb 12, 2022

TCS, Wipro, Cognizant planning to resume Return To Office soon

Centre to resume full office attendance Without Any Exemption from Feb

Union Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on Sunday announced tha...

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Feb 7, 2022

Centre to resume full office attendance Without Any Exemption from Feb

Wellness & Health

Health and Wellness for the New Workplace

“You are on mute”. This was the most popular line in 2021. Guess, which was the most missed line in 2021. That was “Let’s go for a tea”. For the past two years, breaks for most of the corporate workers got compromised. A doctor told me that the timing of breaks makes the most difference […]

Jan 28, 2022

Jobs

WFH has put working women under ‘triple burden’- President Kovind

Work from home (wfh) during the Covid pandemic has its benefits but it has also put working women under a “triple burden”, says President Ram Nath Kovind. In a letter to young Indians published in the Manorama Yearbook 2022, he says women already have the double burden of paid work and “unpaid work”, that is, […]

Jan 19, 2022

Jobs

Pregnant Women, Divyang Employees exempted from attending office

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said that pregnant women and ‘divyang‘ (differently-abled) employees of central government departments have been exempted from attending office in the wake of a sharp spike in Covid cases. However, they will be required to remain available and work from home, he said. Officials and staff living in Covid containment […]

Jan 10, 2022

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JSW Group asks 50% staff to WFH in Mumbai amid Omicron spread

JSW Group is operating with 50 percent staff at its offices in Mumbai, a company official informed on Thursday. The move has been taken as the cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus continue to surge in Maharashtra and other parts of the country, the spokesperson said. “Our offices in Mumbai are working with only 50 percent capacity […]

Jan 7, 2022

Industry

IT companies may stick to a hybrid work by mid of 2022 amid Covid spread

As 2021 draws to a close with the threat of a third wave of Covid-19 looming on in the new year, the plans of information technology companies for a partial return to office by the middle of 2022 may be delayed and the year is likely to see a hybrid model, a mix of both […]

Jan 1, 2022

Industry

Cognizant delays its plan to call staff back to office amid omicron threat

US-headquartered Cognizant Technology Solutions delays its plan to call employees back to the office. Now The company will call its employees back to the office in April 2022. Earlier, IT major was planning to bring employees back to the workplace from January 2022. Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries said in an email to its employees, “Given […]

Dec 24, 2021

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Government is planning to introduce a legal framework for remote work

According to an ET report, the Government of India is reportedly planning to introduce a legal framework for remote work defining the liability of employers towards employees. The government is working towards statutory provisions for the new models of work that companies are adapting in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, such as work from […]

Dec 10, 2021

Industry

CACTUS announces transition to remote-first company for all employees

Cactus Communications, (CACTUS) a technology company has announced its transition to a remote-first company for all its 1,200 employees across nine locations globally. It is one of the first companies in India to join a small but growing list of firms across the globe that are embracing remote-first— companies that have office locations but do […]

Dec 10, 2021

Work Model

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 […]

Oct 4, 2021

Industry

Snapdeal rolls out 6 months WFH for new mothers beyond maternity leave

Snapdeal, an E-commerce company has announced additional wellness measures for its women employees, which also includes an option for new mothers to work from home for 6 months beyond their existing maternity leave. The company said in a statement, “We all are acutely aware that childcare is not easy and many times women leave the […]

Sep 16, 2021

Thought Leader

Dr. Aquil Busrai on HR Challenges in Hybrid Work Model

Dr. Aquil Busrai CEO, aquil busrai consulting and former Executive Director HR, IBM, and Shell Malaysia on Hybrid Work Model Dr. Aquil Busrai is a Gold Medallist from XLRI and has to his credit a Post Graduate Degree in Law, an Advanced Diploma in Training and Development, and a Ph.D. A university Rank Holder. He […]

Aug 27, 2021

Industry

Google employees who choose to WFH could see their pay cut

Google employees who choose to work from home permanently could see their pay cut Google employees based in the same office before the pandemic could see different changes in pay if they switch to working from home permanently, with long commuters hit harder, according to a company pay calculator seen by Reuters. It is an […]

Aug 17, 2021