Tag: Work From Home

After a long gap of 18 months, one of the leading IT firms, Wipro is all set to call back its employees to the offices! With this, the third-largest tech company in India, reportedly became the first IT firm to publicly announce the return of some of its senior employees to office. Taking to Twitter, Wipro Chairman, Rishad Premji informed that the company's leadership would resume work from office, twice a week, starting from Monday (September 13).

When a lethal coronavirus pandemic hit India last year, hundreds of companies were forced to shut their offices overnight and adapt to new ways of working. And soon, work from home culture became a new normal in the country.

It seems to be good news for all the employees working for IT firms located in IT hub Bengaluru. The Karnataka government has urged the IT companies to extend work from home till December 2022.

New York: Too much office workload? Do not bring it home as it might spoil intimacy with your partner and affect your professional life too, a new study has warned. According to researchers, using a mobile device at home for work purposes has negative implications for the employee’s work life and also on the spouse. […]

The ‘Work From Home’ policy that has been adopted by the corporate world ever since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic has now turned out to be a situation much less impressive and productive than expected now even though it promised to be a win-win state of affairs during the first wave of the virus surge.

New Delhi: With several Indian organisations implementing work from home for employees in the wake of growing COVID-19 threat, hackers have turned their eyes on breaking into companies’ networks and systems in absence of robust, multi-layered firewall and security solutions within the boundaries of workers’ homes. Over 20 lakh employees are likely to work from […]

Bhubaneswar: As a large number of people are working from home during the lockdown period which will continue till May 3, the Odisha government on Friday issued a health advisory on the dos and don’ts for them. Asking people to maintain an active lifestyle while staying indoors, the Department of Health and Family Welfare advised […]

New Delhi: The government has extended the relaxed connectivity norms for ‘work from home’, applicable on IT and BPO companies, till July 31, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The deadline for the easier norms was to end on April 30. Industry body Nasscom said the decision to extend the timelines on relaxed norms for other service […]

San Francisco: Google and Facebook have decided to allow most of their workforces to stay home and work through the end of this year. Facebook will open most of its office from July 6, according to a CNBC report. The social networking giant is in the process of determining which employees will be asked to […]

Sydney: Organisations which are more control-oriented and check the productivity of their employees based on inputs will find it more difficult to trust their people when working from home, according to a new study. The pandemic has forced many organisations to change in ways that would have been unthinkable six months ago. According to Karin […]

London: People are sleeping for longer hours during lockdowns and work from home scenario as they do not need to travel to workplaces but the quality of sleep has become worse in many, reveals new research. If the differences in sleep timing and duration between workdays and days off become too large, this can lead […]

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said it has extended connectivity norms for work from home for IT and BPO companies till December 31. The time period for work from home was expiring on July 31. “DoT has further extended the relaxations in the terms and conditions for other service providers up to 31st December […]

San Francisco: With the Covid-19 pandemic hardly showing any sign of slowing down, Google on Monday said it would allow employees to work from home till the middle of next year if their roles permit. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June […]