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Thursday, July 31, 2025
TopicWork from home

Topic: work from home

Modi govt ‘weighs proposal’ to allow IRS, IAS officers to work from home even after lockdown

CARUNA, a platform created by civil servants to assist the Covid-19 efforts, has suggested making work from a home a formal provision for govt employees. 

The office chair—what I miss the most in Covid lockdown working from home

Working from home is ruining our necks and backs now. Taking care of the spine has become an important battle to preserve the March of Progress image.

‘Hospital-like’ meetings, temp checks, making tea — Govt back in old offices but new work life

Central ministries opened Monday, with all senior officials returning to office after nearly a month of working from home during the Covid-19 lockdown.

India’s one lesson from Covid crisis and work-from-home: How to build a real smart city

The work-from-home template offers a way for India to re-imagine its model of urbanisation. For that, it must stop aping Western cities’ models from a century ago.

Covid-19 does not see race, religion, caste before striking, says PM Modi

The coronavirus outbreak has changed the contours of professional life. These days home is the new office and internet is the new meeting room, he added in a post on LinkedIn.

After Covid-19, employers will resist work-from-home much less

The coronavirus pandemic will change the world of work and leaders may now want to give their employees more control over their schedules.

WFH is giving the world economy a sneak peek at our digital, virtual future

Cheaper internet connectivity has enabled explosive growth in online tools, allowing many white-collar roles to be done at home.

Virtual managing is difficult, but managers can learn a lot from work-from-home

Old-fashioned management norms still prevail: presenteeism, performance evaluations based on overtime and excessive meetings. Covid can change that.

Why coronavirus antibody tests are not a passport to return to work

Positive antibody test isn’t automatic ticket back to work until people can also be tested to ensure they don’t have any active virus lingering in their bodies.

Not a win-win situation — why we should not work from home after the Covid-19 lockdown

Companies adopted work-from-home policy to contain the spread of coronavirus but the lack of a boundary between work and home can impact family dynamics.

On Camera

Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

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...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.