Back to office: Experience at the workplace shifting like never before

Fear of the disease has affected the way employees commute, the number of coffee breaks they take, and even their conversations with colleagues

The vision of someone walking into the bank in a balaclava usually sets off alarm bells, but nobody panicked when a man wearing a thick black hood, with just a slit for his eyes, appeared at the door of a big private lender in Parel, Mumbai, recently. The guard did point a gun at him but only to check his temperature, before showed him to a seat after two mandatory pumps of sanitiser. It is mainly people without masks that worry employees in the branch, which is located in Lalbaug, a Covid-19 hotspot not long ago.

“There is always a risk,