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Behind Mumbai's coronavirus crisis: Poor planning, unbridled greed

Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a "sad reality".

Amazon India extends work from home plan till Oct amid Covid-19 spread

Flipkart to reopen offices in graded manner

Check applicable charges while joining online conference platforms: TRAI

The regulatory body urged the people to carefully check the terms and conditions before using dial-in service provided by online conferencing platforms

White-collar companies race to be last to return to the office

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Capital One and others are extending work-from-home policies to September and sometimes far beyond.

Why get all made up with nowhere to go?

Staying at home has caused many people to change their makeup, hair-care and skin-care routines. Companies are feeling the effects.

Covid-19 impact: Facebook employees to work from home till 2020 end

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had announced that the company is cancelling physical events with more than 50 people through June 2021

The workplace will change forever

Workstation areas can no longer have the crowded cafe feel as proximity may no longer seem so tempting

93% India Inc. workers stressed about returning to office: FYI Survey

Employees fear on account of their health being compromised and that needs to be managed on priority

Parking lots become digital lifeline in US amid coronavirus outbreak

With cafes and libraries closed, Americans without internet access are sitting outside them to get free and fast connections

Tech Mahindra may allow 25% employees to work from home till March 2021

The company is in talks with clients to seek approval, and is building a control system to track staff productivity in real time

The pandemic pivot to low-touch business

There are sectors that are looking beyond the pandemic to pivot from being a high-touch business to a low-touch one

A better world after Covid?

It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live

IT clients fear data leak, question WFH feasibility amid Covid-19 crisis

Even getting approval for WFH during the ongoing crisis was not easy for many firms

India's internet speed improves over previous week, but still below peak

Fixed download speed in India was 35.84 Mbps. Both are marginally higher than the previous week

Making WFH work

Despite their reservations, companies must frame clear guidelines for the new normal

Covid-19 and women@work

Poor access to economic opportunity is reflected potently in India's famously poor female labour force participation rates

Coronavirus lockdown a blessing in disguise for IT sector, say executives

Companies across the services sectors, including banks, are set to have fewer people work from the offices in the future

Work from home v/s work at home

HR sends an email saying I absented myself from a Zoom conference and the boss is pissed. I take the clothes out of the washing machine

Companies shift focus on reskilling workforce for post-Covid world

With job losses and redundancies looming large, firms have taken to the idea of reskilling their workforce with gusto

Akhilesh again slams UP govt for 'failing to manage coronavirus crisis'

He even claimed that the state had adopted a discriminatory attitude in resolving the crisis of UP-origin labourers stuck in other states