Hero MotoCorp – a manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters – has decided to extend the shutdown at its manufacturing facilities across India, its Global Parts Center (GPC) in Neemrana and its R&D facility – the Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT) in Jaipur – by another week, till May 16, 2021. This is also in…
SAP, a business software solutions provider, has asked its Indian employees to work from home till the month of December, 2021 seeing to the rise in coronavirus cases. Speaking on the announcement, Sindhu Gangadharan, SVP and Managing Director at SAP Labs India stated, “The safety of our colleagues is #1 priority for us at SAP. In view of the…
Sitel Group, a global leader in end-to-end customer experience (CX) products and solutions, announced it’s hiring for more than 2,000 work-at-home jobs to meet the needs of rapid growth in India. Since opening its flagship site in Mumbai in 2000, Sitel India has seen steady growth in the market, especially in the past two years—reporting…
Ride-hailing major Uber has extended work-from-home policy for its employees till September 13, as California continues to show a dramatic decline in the number of Covid-19 cases, according to IANS report. Uber is also encouraging employees to get vaccinated when it’s possible to do so, reports TechCrunch. “In considering the extension, we took into account…
Wipro has extended work-from-home for its employees till April 4, 2021. Earlier, the company implemented work from home model till March 2021. Wipro told Times of India that the step was taken keeping the safety and wellbeing of employees in mind. “Nearly 98% of our employees are working from home,” it said. Recently, Google announced…
Google plans to extend work from home for employees till September, 2021, according to a report by Reuters quoting New York Times. The company is testing the idea of a ‘flexible workweek’ once it is safe for staff to return to offices physically. An email was sent by Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to the…
E-commerce company, Flipkart, headquartered in Bangalore, has asked its employees to continue to work from home due to COVID-19 pandemic, till May 2021. According to an internal email sent by the company to its employees, the retail giant has decided to extend the phase two of the ‘back to office plan’ till the May of…
Today the number of remote workers is greater than ever before and due to recent circumstances such as COVID-19, more employees are turning to virtual jobs. While many workers like the idea of working from home, it’s normal for people to feel detached and alienated from their colleagues. Have a morning routine Having a morning…
The Government of India has recently announced guidelines relaxing provisions for Other service providers (OSPs) which will help the technology industry to adopt permanent ‘work-from-home’ and ‘work-from-anywhere’ policies
Druva, the leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, announced plans to ramp up its workforce in India within the next 12 months, even as it extends remote working for all employees until the spring of 2021. Since initiating a mandatory remote working policy earlier this year to protect employees and the larger community, Druva…
Coursera, an online education company that partners with universities and organizations to offer classes on their platform, has allowed its employees to work from home till January 1, 2022. Also, the online learning platform will give $1,000 or the local equivalent in the UK, India, Canada, Bulgaria, and the UAE to create a productive home…
Bengaluru-based cloud services provider G7 CR Technologies recently announced that it has decided to pass on the various benefits to its employees for a safer and healthy work environment. The company has announced a work from home allowance of ₹18,000 for all its employees. The intent is to aid the purchase of UPS and office…
Japanese IT equipment and services company, Fujitsu Ltd recently said that it would halve its office space in three years as it rewrites the way employees work under a “new normal” amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company said its roughly 80,000 group employees in Japan would work flexible hours, and work-from-home would be standard wherever…
Jeff Bezons-led e-commerce giant Amazon recently announced that it is hiring close to 20,000 ‘seasonal’ or temporary employees in India in its customer service (CS) department to help customers globally with a seamless online shopping experience. The company in a statement said that the new positions are being added to meet the anticipated demand in…
Automobile manufacturer Ford Motor Company recently said that it is extending its ‘work-from-home’ arrangement for its salaried employees based in the United States for the rest of the year. The decision by the Ford management is taken after multiple requests by employees to keep working remotely amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In an official statement,…