Mumbai-based Edtech firm upGrad has increased its headcount From 500 to 2000 during the pandemic in order to meet the growing demand. Consequently, the firm has to re-look and restructure its people’s policies.
The edtech major has extended Work From Home till June 2021 as it focuses on a healthier work-life balance and holistic well-being for maintaining employee morale in its blitzscale phase.
Preeti Kaul, Head – HR, upGrad said, “Given youth is a majority in our talent, we rightly expected most to move back to their hometowns. We were cognizant that missing the office environment and interpersonal interactions will have a huge interplay with the current state of living in joint families, with perhaps a lack of personal space, minimal physical & social activities, coupled with the anxiety of the pandemic. Thus, the holistic well-being of our employees, in addition to their physical safety, became the front and center of our people’s practices.”
Along with covid leaves, upGrad provides its employees benefits such as add-on features in insurance policies, ex-gratia payouts, employee engagement activities like fitness challenges, yoga classes, informal talk shows with senior leaders, virtual stand-up comedies, and one-on-one expert counselling sessions.
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