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Wednesday, May 8, 2024
TopicWork from home

Topic: work from home

Ministries told not to force junior staff to come to office as Delhi Covid cases surge

The Department of Personnel and Training is in the final stages of firming up a work from home framework, and an order on it is expected soon.

Covid has led to companies downsizing. Three things you can do to avoid being laid off

Good work is simply not enough to stay employed, especially during a crisis. These are the times when your professional relationships play an important role.

Flexible hours and regular virtual contact — How companies can support remote workforces

The world is witnessing the largest global experiment in remote working. But the onus is on employers to provide adequate support to remote colleagues.

Why Covid crisis is the last blow to office romance

Employees at Twitter, TCS and Facebook can indefinitely work remotely. And those turning up at offices are keeping masks and sanitisers close, distance from each other.

Covid-19 transformed workforces, but younger employees have been seeking flexibility for years

Modern start-ups have shown younger generations want unlimited personal time off, abolishment of nine-to-five work culture & professional accountability.

Pandemic is fast-changing our offices but workplace surveillance is also on the rise

The workplaces we return to post-Covid are likely to look very different from those we left behind, with safety trumping all other considerations.

Working from home has made us more vulnerable to cyberattacks

Large-scale adoption of work-from-home technologies, greater use of cloud services & dependency on personal devices has increased pressure on cybersecurity.

How can you make a webinar exciting?

Businessman Anand Mahindra took to Twitter to denounce the word 'webinar' and asked for it to be 'banished' from the dictionary.

Google allows work from home till end of 2020, to give $1,000 allowance to each employee

CEO Sundar Pichai, in an email, said Google will start opening more buildings from July allowing employees to return to office on a rotating basis.

Bail plea in baniyan to pressure cooker whistles – a nightmare called WFH in India

Many Indians have historically had little work-from-home experience. It’s playing a role in bringing productivity to an all-time low.

On Camera

Xi Jinping is courting France. India must make sure its European partner isn’t seduced

Xi won’t be walking away from Europe with a win in hand, but his visit will almost certainly ignite arguments about the continent’s geopolitical future.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

Three Indian Navy ships deployed to South China Sea

Deployment comes at a time when Yuan Wang 03, a Chinese missile and satellite tracking vessel, has entered Indian Ocean Region.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.