Work From Home

With offices open again, and remote work more common, companies now have options - and it's not necessarily clear what is best for workers

Infosys is taking these steps to minimise inter-city travel for its employees and provide them with greater flexibility

Beroe, a SaaS firm with 80% employees in India, has been on a four-day workweek for six years

More than one in three employers (37%) use live camera feeds to keep tabs on remote workers, prompting some to quit while others get fired, a new survey found

Analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely

Coming to work voluntary, though firm is encouraging staff to come for 1-2 days a week; statement is of significance as several firms are asking employees to head back to office

Information technology major Wipro's Chairman Rishad Premji on Wednesday said more employees need to work from offices rather than from their homes. He also said that coming to office helps in establishing a connect and an intimacy which is very essential for us as humans, and made it clear that no technology can be of help on the same. "You can't build that connectedness and intimacy no matter how advanced technology gets. We are human beings. I am a big believer that we should be coming back (to offices) in some shape and form," Premji said while speaking at the NTLF 2023. Accepting that hybrid working, where an employee works both from office and homes, is the future of work, Premji said the technology industry is one of the most "spoilt" sector where people enjoy this unique way of working. "People should have flexibility to work from home but people should also be coming into organisations," he said. Premji said it was possible to work from homes in the initial days of the ..

Murthy said the whole idea of working from the office three days a week and working from home is not the way young Indians should behave at this point in time

The large-scale adoption of cloud and the work-from-anywhere model have led Indian businesses to step up investment in data protection

In the US, Twitter has been sued as it failed to pay $136,250 rent for its office space in San Francisco

Twitter staff were informed via email Wednesday that they had until 5 p.m. to leave the CapitaGreen building and resume their duties remotely from Thursday

The controls are back with employers, and WFO with a degree of flexibility is the office-way for now

Shift work and working face-to-face with others affect the risk of Covid-19 and the severity of the infection, new research has shown

Satya (Nadella) pays special attention to the work that we're doing here…. When it comes to investing, India is top of mind, says Microsoft's Kevin Peesker

The new rule states that a unit will have to only maintain the lists of employees who are allowed to follow WFH or from any place outside SEZs

As the pandemic pushed organizations to work remotely, the HR Tech space saw an influx of investments

From being the 'office to the world', India is set to become its factory too

Survey finds that 45% of companies are looking for new office spaces including conventional and flexible ones, 35% have adopted a multi-office approach by collaborating with co-working spaces

For the first time, people from across the world will vote to choose the Oxford Word of the Year 2022, Oxford Languages has announced. A team of expert lexicographers have narrowed down a longlist of worthy contestants to a final choice of three words -- metaverse, #IStandWith, and goblin mode. The voting, which started on November 21, will close on December 2. Last year 'Vax' was adjudged word of the year. "2022 has been a year defined by opening back up. However, although we have finally been able to physically reunite and come together again, our world somehow feels more divided than ever," Oxford Languages said. "In recognition of this shift, we wanted to open up the final step of our Word of the Year selection process to the true arbiters of language: people around the world... For the first time in its history, the 2022 Word of the Year will be chosen by the public," a statement said. The three words are each relevant to the year in a different way. In 'metaverse', there i

Attitudes vary across the region. Singapore, Australia and New Zealand are most likely to embrace flexible working. China, Japan and India are the least receptive to it