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Can the pandemic nudge us to change our habits and make our lives better?

Preposterous though it may sound, months of staying at home 24x7 has offered an opportunity to change lifestyles for the better.

Myntra to run India's biggest fashion sale event remotely by staff on WFH

The fashion retailer is geared to handle 20,000 orders per minute, expects 3 mn people to shop from the safety of their homes

Slower data speeds: Worst might be over, but only temporarily

Data networks are working at near peak capacity of 80-85% (compared to 65-75% pre-Covid) and they could get into a jam once again if economic activity suddenly picks

Digital chai breaks, cookery classes: How Flipsters did WFH under lockdown

In order to motivate and energise staff working from home, initiatives such as webinars on fitness, meditation, self-care, workplace ergonomics, stress and anxiety management were undertaken

How companies can maintain employee mental health in the time of Covid-19

Very few have been able to cope with a sudden, prolonged shift to WFH; Zoom fatigue has set in, causing burnouts and low productivity

The renewed interest in a widely acclaimed book on 'bullshit jobs'

A widely acclaimed book on 'bullshit jobs' is at the centre of renewed interest ever since the Covid-19-induced lockdown shone a spotlight on the nature of 'essential services'

Allowing 75% of TCS staff to WFH by 2025 a guesstimate: N Chandrasekaran

The firm said it was rewiring its security processes, and deploying artificial intelligence and bots to ensure there is no data leakage in its pursuit for providing seamless work from home experience.

The office stays: How commercial real estate will survive Covid-19 crisis

Companies can't make work-from-home a permanent feature of their business. India's commercial real estate market will do well despite the pandemic, writes Anshuman Magazine

From router to storage device: 5 things to make work-from-home functional

While a make-do workstation at home can get you moving, there are gadgets that help elevate user experience and improve productivity and work efficiency

Covid-19: Quarter of Genpact staff to continue working from home, says CEO

This will mark a shift in an industry that is widely thought of as being used to working from a fixed workplace.

Lack of transport and office space makes companies stick to work from home

Lack of public transport for employees to reach office is a major hurdle for companies to resume normal office routine

Sanitizing to queuing up: Mind the gap is new mall mantra as lockdown eases

The first of a 3-part series offers a glimpse into the new ways of shopping as lockdown eases across cities

Story in Numbers: 69% prefer work from home to continue to avoid traffic

The survey was an attempt to understand how people were feeling under the lockdown since March 25

Protection to fashion

They must be worn and taken off properly to ensure any contaminated surfaces don't to­u­ch the face, and if reusable, washed re­gularly

Are we over-celebrating 'work from home'?

The Microsoft top boss feels that the increase in productivity has come at the price of burning the 'social capital' built up by companies over very many years

Realtors plan bigger houses to accommodate a 'home office' inside them

Social distancing, work-from-home spur realtors to increase share of 3-BHK apartments so that one room can be used as an office

Covid-19 : HP sees spike in demand for PCs with work from home, e-classes

Reported declining revenue on supply-chain disruption

How customer support agents are learning the ropes of work from home

Anantha Radhakrishnan, CEO and MD of Infosys BPM, sees in this disruption an opportunity to digitise the entire value chain

Nasscom for policy tweak to enable longer work-from-home scenario

Nasscom has asked for the abolition of OSPs (other service providers) under the Department of Telecom, under which certain kinds of work (such as voice calls) cannot be shifted to employees' homes.

Dear Office, your services are terminated

The demise of the office has been foretold yet again. But there's a lot of fight left in the old lady.