Steel firms plan return to office, set up 'flexible' policies for employees

Tata Steel will allow employees to choose between working from home or office; JSW Steel is weighing a distributed workplace strategy

Four months into “unlocking” India and amid rising hope for vaccines, the country’s largest steelmakers – Tata Steel and JSW Steel – are chalking out policies for workplace and workforce.

Tata Steel is coming out with a new policy effective November that will allow employees to choose between working from home and working out of office; JSW Steel, on the other hand, is mulling a distributed workplace strategy from next financial year.

T V Narendran, managing director and chief executive officer of Tata Steel, said, “We are coming out with some new policies effective from November 1, which we will