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81% Indians believe their jobs can be done remotely, says survey

A whopping 81 per cent of employees in India believe that their jobs can be done remotely, according to a survey

India Inc tells employees to return to office; IT firms take the lead

Wanting its employees to trade in their sweatpants for a sharp suit as Covid cases rise

The WFH-WFO faultlines

The problem is that the notion that WFH equals less pay and perks has been hardwired into corporate thinking

Top headlines: HDFC Q1 net rises 22%; IOC posts Rs 1,993-cr net loss in Q1

Swiggy announced on Friday that it has extended its 'Future of Work' policy and announced a permanent work-from-anywhere for majority of roles.

Swiggy announces permanent work-from-anywhere policy for most roles

Corporate, central business and tech teams will converge once a quarter at their base locations for a week to promote in-person bonding; it's work from office for partner-facing employees

Netherlands poised to make work-from-home a legal right, says report

The new legislation comes at a time when companies worldwide struggle to bring workers back to office

Hybrid or WFO, rising coronavirus cases haven't disturbed India Inc

Alert to Covid situation, companies across sectors are continuing with existing work models for now

Total office space leasing in May jumps nearly 3-fold across 7 cities: JLL

The total or gross leasing of office spaces rose 28 per cent from 4.8 million square feet in April 2022 across seven major cities -- Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata

Flexible workspace demand jumps two-fold to 90,200 desks in FY22: Report

Demand for co-working office space jumped over two-fold in the last fiscal year at 90,200 desks across seven major cities as flexible workspaces rose in prominence after 2nd wave of the pandemic

Sri Lanka schools, public offices to work online as fuel crisis continues

Sri Lankan government has announced a shut-down of public sector offices from next week, beginning Monday due to severe fuel shortages as the nation continues to reel under its worst economic crisis

Juniors and seniors: What various generations think about working from home

A recent study by McKinsey & Co. found that workers aged 18 to 34 were 59% more likely to leave than 55- to 64-year-olds if their employer didn't offer a hybrid work arrangement

Tech industry comfortable with hybrid work model: Nasscom-BCG report

Over 80 percent of the IT companies and GCCs are most likely to adopt a hybrid work model as compared to the rest of the industry segments

Covid-19: Work from home is here to stay, says research firm CIRIL

The agency said there is a huge potential in infrastructure development and real estate sector, particularly in Tier II and Tier III cities

Elon Musk's office mandate, recession fears complicate new work era

Musk's recent demand that all Tesla Inc. employees get back to their desks or find work elsewhere has made him the latest figurehead of the return-to-office movement

Bangalore most competitive city for senior HR, cyber security professionals

The study looks to understand which cities are best placed to compete for the remote jobs of today and tomorrow and benefit from the increase in taxable income that will be generated

Gurugram issues WFH advisory to pvt institutions, offices amid heavy rain

A number of trees were uprooted in Sushant Lok, Gurugram-Faridabad Road, Sector-18 Road, Golf Course Road and Sector-44 road

Beijing extends work-from-home, orders mass testing as Covid cases rise

Beijing extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing Monday as cases of Covid-19 again rose in the city.

India's power grid creaks under hybrid work model, extreme heatwave

Indians are cranking up air conditioning as they still work from home, while lights come back on in offices and factories with an end to Covid curbs, upending power demand patterns amid a heatwave

India Inc struggles to get employees back to office

Scores of employees at WhiteHat Jr have recently quit after being told to join office. This has brought the focus back on India Inc's return-to-office plans and implementation challenges it is facing

Over 800 WhiteHat Jr workers resign when asked to work from office: Report

The employees who resigned didn't want to relocate to their respective office locations