The novel coronavirus outbreak, which originated from China in December last year, has now spread to India forcing the government to impose a nationwide 21-day lockdown. The outbreak has now been termed as “pandemic” by the World Health Organisation. So far, the virus has claimed 47 lives and infected more than 1500 people. Organizations nationwide…
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CoronaVirus causing the world’s largest work from home experiment
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•The novel coronavirus outbreak, which began from Chinese city Wuhan in December, has now infected more than 67,000 people and killed over 1,500 in China alone. With the World Health Organization declaring it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the virus has shut forced the Chinese economy on its knees with many analysts failing…
Four-day week work: The future of work?
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•The five-day, 40-hour workweek has been the conventional practice in business essentially since its inception by Henry Ford in 1926. But a recent Microsoft pilot program challenging that convention has signaled that when done right, the four-day workweek can yield great benefits for the company, community and individual alike Last year in August, Microsoft Japan…