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• Six out of 10 IT companies opt for hybrid work: Study

  As of January 2024, 17% of companies are in 100% work-from-home mode, said the study that covered more than 500 companies with over one million employees, mostly in the IT and ITES space.

  

• Employees believe offices not ready for new way of working: study

  A Cisco study on employee attitudes toward returning to the office in India reveals that while 76% of employees respond positively to their organization's return-to-office mandate, 82% express a desire to return to the office at least a few times per week. However, employees believe that current workspaces are not ready for the evolving way of working

  

• WFH good for firms' revenue growth: Study

  The analysis of 554 public companies that employ a collective 26.7 million people found that "fully flexible" firms which are either completely remote or allow employees to choose when they come to an office increased sales 21% between 2020 and 2022, on an industry-adjusted basis.

  

• India Inc gifts staff work from home, even a week off amid shop-a-jams

  Diversified conglomerate RPG already allows its staff the flexibility to avoid commuting to office on days with heavy traffic or unreliable public transportation.

  

• Infosys asks entry and mid level staff to work from office 10 days a month

  "As we move to strengthen our return to office (RTO) approach and hybrid work model, I urge you to work from office for a minimum of 10 days in the month, starting Nov 20, 2023," read an email sent by one of the vice presidents to employees in the band 5 and 6 in select verticals. ET has reviewed the email.

  

• Generative AI is replacing remote work in the future of work debate

  Work’s main issue is no longer the future of inanimate bricks and mortar of offices — significant economically though this is to city centers, commutes and the real-estate industry. Nor is it about the alternative “space” of the much-vaunted metaverse, which Wired Magazine describes as so vague that if you replace it with cyberspace “ninety percent of the time, the meaning won’t substantially change.”

  

• Several Amazon workers quit than relocate to main work hubs: Report

  As per the e-commerce giant's guidelines, remote workers are expected to join a main Amazon hub by the first half of 2024.

  

• Amazon cracks down on employees who stay away from the office

  Some US employees at Amazon received an email this week stating that they are not meeting the company’s expectation of spending at least three days a week in the office, according to a copy of the message seen by Bloomberg. The Financial Times reported on the email previously.

  

• Company that pioneered WFH culture now demands employees to return to office

  It can be difficult to adjust to the usual 9-5 setup after months of remote work. Here’s how you can acclimatise yourself to the good-old office schedule again.

  

• Companies in Gurugram ask staff to work remotely

  Companies in the Haryana city, which houses thousands of factories, including of Maruti Suzuki and Hero MotoCorp, MNCs such as Nestle, Coke and Pepsi, corporate majors like Bharti Airtel, are closely monitoring the law-and-order situation, their executives said. Several of them have already asked their employees to work from home till the situation improves, while others said they will take a call on physical attendance at offices based on the directions issued by the state administration.

  

• Factory jobs aren't WFH but can still be flexible

  While factory employees may not get to work from home anytime soon, the companies can surely make certain changes to the industrial workweek.