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Parking lots become digital lifeline in US amid coronavirus outbreak

With cafes and libraries closed, Americans without internet access are sitting outside them to get free and fast connections

Tech Mahindra may allow 25% employees to work from home till March 2021

The company is in talks with clients to seek approval, and is building a control system to track staff productivity in real time

The pandemic pivot to low-touch business

There are sectors that are looking beyond the pandemic to pivot from being a high-touch business to a low-touch one

A better world after Covid?

It is time to shrug off the ideological shackles about the way we work, play and live

IT clients fear data leak, question WFH feasibility amid Covid-19 crisis

Even getting approval for WFH during the ongoing crisis was not easy for many firms

India's internet speed improves over previous week, but still below peak

Fixed download speed in India was 35.84 Mbps. Both are marginally higher than the previous week

Making WFH work

Despite their reservations, companies must frame clear guidelines for the new normal

Covid-19 and women@work

Poor access to economic opportunity is reflected potently in India's famously poor female labour force participation rates

Coronavirus lockdown a blessing in disguise for IT sector, say executives

Companies across the services sectors, including banks, are set to have fewer people work from the offices in the future

Work from home v/s work at home

HR sends an email saying I absented myself from a Zoom conference and the boss is pissed. I take the clothes out of the washing machine

Companies shift focus on reskilling workforce for post-Covid world

With job losses and redundancies looming large, firms have taken to the idea of reskilling their workforce with gusto

Akhilesh again slams UP govt for 'failing to manage coronavirus crisis'

He even claimed that the state had adopted a discriminatory attitude in resolving the crisis of UP-origin labourers stuck in other states

India can be nerve centre of modern supply chains in post-Covid world: PM

With the world is in pursuit of new business models, "India, a youthful nation known for its innovative zeal, can take the lead in providing a new work culture," Modi opined.

How isolation and WFH have deepened our engagement with work and people

Covid-19 and its aftermath are an opportunity to significantly reorient the way we approach work and leisure - and, by extension, life itself.

Work from home: Here's how companies can track employee productivity

In a recent report, global analyst firm ISG said that while 80% of employees associated with IT sector globally are working from home during the ongoing lockdown

The writ of the RWAs

Many RWAs and associations of urban dwellers across the country are assuming powers they do not possess and behaving like tinpot dictators

In caring company: Firms make working from home stress free and fun

Some companies have engaged doctors and therapists to talk to employees over webinars and answer questions related to the virus.

Work from home: Only 0.2% IT sector workforce highly productive, says study

About 99.8 per cent of the workforce in the information technology sector is incapable of working from home, according to the study

Coronavirus lockdown: IBM India says 99% workforce now working from home

The company provided the option to work remotely to most of its employees even before countries began going under lockdowns

Work from home a success for many companies, may become new normal

This period will serve as a reckoning for remote work and may help to spur on digital transformation