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Topic: Office

Workplace best friends are good for you, a US researcher explains

While there will always be colleagues you don’t care for, it can be empowering to know that with some reframing, you can help create a better workplace for everyone.

Reprogramme your brain to feel good on Mondays. Here’s how

You can’t always change your schedule or obligations to make Mondays more appealing. But the human brain loves routine, so here’s what you can do.

SubscriberWrites: Professionalism cannot be used as an excuse for denying jobs based on hair colour, tattoos

Organisations should look into aptitude instead of scrutinising for tattoos and hair colours as 'viable' reasons for denying jobs to eligible candidates, writes Aditya Sundaray.

Young Indians want work-centric shows, but there has been dearth after ‘Office Office’

Most Indian shows on work life seem to be 'inspired' by Michael Scott and the US 'Office'.

Work from home, work at will — how Covid disrupted Indian workplaces

In 2020, India introduced measures to ease registration & compliance requirements to enable employees of IT and BPO companies to work from anywhere, permanently.

Why our office buildings need to match the way we work in 2021

Smart facilities in buildings are currently poorly coordinated. Developers need uniform standards to fully implement innovative construction methods.

Remote working is starting to show tears. But going back to office isn’t only solution

Burnt-out workers are looking for any direction from management now.

Email rudeness just got worse in workplaces

Studies show that almost 98 per cent of people say they have experienced uncivil behaviour in the workplace, a phenomenon that has gotten worse during Covid-19.

Indians talking mental health aren’t ‘millennial snowflakes’. Time for bosses to catch up

Of the 11 lakh registered companies in India, only 1,000 have a structured Employees Assistance Programme for mental health. The rest probably think it’s a fad.

Want to make office meetings worthwhile? Have an agenda beforehand

Office meetings must have agendas & not be a forum for organisers to hear themselves think.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.