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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

In the first quarter of FY21, Tata Steel Europe’s EBITDA loss was at Rs 626 crore, owing to a weak European market

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For JSW Steel, a combination of strategies has been at play; some are going to the office, some on a rotational basis and others working from home

Ishita Ayan Dutt Aditi Divekar Kolkata/Mumbai

4 min read Last Updated : Oct 31 2020 | 12:40 AM IST

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

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