Workers return to new environment as companies reimagine workspaces

The manufacturing sector is reimagining workspaces to infuse confidence in workers

For Italian brake-maker Brembo, the Central government's decision to ease the lockdown from the first week of June came as a false dawn. In mid-June, the Tamil Nadu government jammed on the brakes by announcing a complete lockdown in four districts.

Close to a hundred employees were supposed to return to work. The challenge now was how to get them to the Brembo plant in Chennai. So for about a month, Brembo moved 30 workers, who lived in towns outside Chennai, to the House of Hiranandani luxury apartments near the factory.

Ever since the government went into an “unlock” mode