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Auto majors hold steady on EV plans as pandemic wrecks ICE market

Encouraged by demand pick-up in the past few months, most are going ahead with their planned investments and models

IT firms roll out solutions to help clients return to office smoothly

WFH-themed solutions aimed at cost saving and better employee management for clients

Covid-19 pandemic led to revival of technology, expertise: Nandan Nilekani

He said that during Covid-19 crisis, digital and medical technologies stood out, which enabled people to work from home, and helped in dealing with the virus by developing better tests, drugs, vaccin

WFH leads to surge in demand for office furniture rentals: Industry experts

Corporates and independent consumers are renting ergonomic curated products to make working from home more efficient, especially in metro cities, resulting in surge in furniture rentals

Working from home raises questions about US inequality - Fed panel

Surveys show that most want to keep working at home at least part-time even after the pandemic is over, and a recent survey by the Atlanta Fed shows firms expect that as well

Lessons from Covid-19: WFH means Do-It-All-Yourself, says V Vaidyanathan

I worked from home for a while, but now I'm back in office, full-time, every day, says Vaidyanathan

Hike to spend up to Rs 40,000 per employee to facilitate WFH through 2020

Mobile messaging platform Hike on Thursday said all its employees will work from home throughout this year and the company will spend up to Rs 40,000 per staffer

Remote working: What the 'tech exodus' means for the Silicon Valley

Apple and Alphabet have long been deeply office-oriented; Yahoo, Best Buy and Reddit ended up reversing course on their flexible work arrangements in the past decade.

WFH could mean higher tax for some, altering pay structure may give relief

But many expenses incurred during WFH can't be treated as non-taxable until law is amended

Best of BS Opinion: RBI's loan recast scheme, WFH revolution, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

The Work From Home revolution

Will it trigger a social and management revolution as well?

Lessons from Covid-19: A time for calm leadership, says Preetha Reddy

Covid-19 has been an unparalleled test of character and resilience for millions around the world. Nevertheless, none of what we have done compares to the sacrifices made by those at the frontline

From wood to WFH

Back in the eighties, cosy and egalitarian were not adjectives you would apply to offices

India plugged: Work from home drives laptop sales amid Covid-19 lockdown

From market leader HP and premium player Apple to China's Lenovo and Asus, all major brands in the market are witnessing rapid surge in the demand for notebooks

India's PC market falls 37.3% in June qtr, WFH drives notebook sales: IDC

The consumer segment saw a y-o-y decline of 21 per cent in the June 2020 quarter, while there was a 3.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter growth

Four-fifths of CEOs expect Covid pandemic to entrench remote working: PwC

New York, London and some other major cities currently have only a fraction of their normal workforce in offices as employers and governments have told staff to work from home

HR steps in to ease work from home pressure amid Covid-19 pandemic

"A lot of this is desired but on many occasions fails in implementation. We find policies aplenty, but putting them into action is less common," says Anandorup Ghose, partner, Deloitte India

Lessons from Covid-19: I was the mom of the house, says Rustomjee Group CMD

"In the weeks ahead, I will perhaps go to office twice a week instead of every day for half a day, as I used to before the lockdown," he said

Facebook employees get $1,000 for home office, work from home until July

Facebook says the company will continue reopening offices in a restricted capacity where government guidance permits and where virus mitigation has taken place for about two months

After Google, Facebook asks employees to work from home until July 2021

Social media giant is giving an additional $1,000 to employees to buy supplies for a home office