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Sunday, October 12, 2025
TopicWorkplace

Topic: Workplace

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.

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.

Creepy technologies are invading European office spaces as people go back to work

Workplaces are trying out surveillance tech such as fever-testing thermal cameras, mask-detection systems and tracking software to prevent a fresh virus outbreak.

India’s workplaces need to understand menstruation better. Period

Offices that acknowledge women's periods create equitable workplaces, ones that create a safe space for women in the profession.

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.

Not just women, even men need to join the battle against overworking

A survey published in Harvard Business Review paints a portrait of silent male suffering, and the way in which male silence and female openness conspire to maintain the status quo.

Job interviews to sexist colleagues’ comments: Offices judge me by my tattoos, not work

The questions on my tattoos haunted me to the point that I stopped dressing for myself when I went to work, and started wearing clothes that hid them.

Millennial parents will shape the workplace of the future

Recent technological advances and demographic shifts mean millennial parents have more leverage to demand better work-life support from employers.

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.

Workers might welcome robots taking over their jobs

A survey found a robotic takeover was easier to accept because it didn’t batter people’s self-image quite so brutally as being replaced by another human.

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.