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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
TopicWork from home

Topic: work from home

You can’t live in Levi’s in lockdown. Purani jeans are not comfort wear after all

Bruce Springsteen to Sholay — jeans were the cool, sexy, youthful and rebellious garments every one wanted. But Covid lockdowns made us realise it wasn't needed.

Care flex days, home office stipends — Companies are trying to balance work-life for employees

Whether because they can’t go on a real vacation or simply fear losing their job, many employees just won’t stop working at a time when stress and burnout are likely off the charts.

Avoid that sink(ing) feeling before you do the dishes. Dishwasher is the new washing machine

The pandemic offers us opportunities to move to a more desirable equilibrium. Dishwashers and many other home appliances allow people to be more productive.

Govt extends work from home norms for IT, BPO companies till 31 December

Around 85% of the IT workforce is presently working from home and only those performing critical functions are going to offices. The current time period was ending on 31 July.

Less distracted, free of gender roles — many working mothers are glad to return to office

The precautions they take to keep Covid at bay are, in some ways, a small price to pay for regaining their boundaries and reclaiming their professional identity.

Boris Johnson wants Britons to get back to work – from office

UK PM Boris Johnson said he hopes to ease the remaining lockdown restrictions and return to normality by November, possibly in time for Christmas.

High productivity, less gossip, but no work-life balance — WFH tales of Bengaluru techies

Covid lockdown has transformed how IT sector works, with firms making quick transition to work from home to sustain operations. But the experiment has got mixed reviews.

How the Dutch mastered work from home, climate change during lockdown & other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Skill ministry pulls up staff who ‘worked from home’ without nod, says will take action

Skill ministry sends email to a number of employees, including some living in containment zones, seeking explanation for absence from office.

Indian bankers more productive working from home due to elimination of lengthy commutes

The average commute time on Mumbai's, India's financial capital, major routes is over an hour, more than twice the averages of Singapore, Hong Kong & New York.

On Camera

US-Pakistan romance is not new. Why does India feel betrayed?

I don’t believe that the US-India relationship has deteriorated beyond repair. There are ways of handling Trump, even if the Pakistanis have outplayed us this year.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.