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14Jun By NitishNo Comments

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Now Anyone can use Google Workspace

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 14, 2021-- Google announced a series of updates that build upon its vision to deliver a single, integrated communication and collaboration solution to everyone via Google Workspace. Now, all of the company's three billion-plus existing users across consumer, enterprise, and education have access to the full Google Workspace experience, including Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Meet and more. Google Workspace is also launching Workspace Individual, a powerful, easy-to-use solution that was built to help individual business owners grow, run, and protect their business. This new subscription offering provides premium capabilities, including smart booking services, professional video meetings and personalized email marketing, with much more ...

Microsoft makes Work from Home permanent for some Staff

13Oct By AdityaNo Comments

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Microsoft makes Work from Home permanent for some Staff

Houston, Oct 13th, 2020: Tech company Microsoft has decided to expand its work-from-home policy and make it permanent for some workers. The company has released the new "hybrid workplace" guidance that lays out how employees can have a more flexible remote work schedule and even relocate elsewhere in the country, while it continues to adjust to changing needs during the ongoing pandemic. Microsoft will allow employees to work from home freely for less than 50 per cent of their working week, and managers will be able to approve permanent remote work. "We will offer as much flexibility as possible to support individual work styles, while balancing business needs, and ensuring we live our culture," Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft''s chief people officer, said in a post on the official Micr...

4Aug By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Work from home Job Search rise over 400% in India

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many jobs have rapidly become work-from-home jobs at least temporarily and with the flexibility and a variety of career options, it has become more popular than ever, global job site Indeed said in a report. The job postings grew in sectors such as software technology, healthcare and marketing, while opportunities for delivery person and IT manager saw a steady rise, it said. The report is based upon data from the Indeed platform from February to July. Employers are beginning to notice the benefits of increased production and morale, leading to more opportunities for work-from-home and remote jobs, it noted. According to the data, job searches for work from home in India have surged over 442 percent between February and July, the highest globally. ...

75% Employers Not Comfortable With Work-From-Home Option

24May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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75% Employers Not Comfortable With Work-From-Home Option

While a whopping share of 90 per cent employees say they want a work from home option, 75 per cent of employers are not comfortable with the idea, said a recent study. "Nearly 60 per cent organisations do not have a formal work-from-home policy. Incidentally, 75 per cent employers are not even comfortable with the idea, whereas 90 per cent employees are keen on having such a policy at work," according to a study carried out by job portal, TimesJobs. The study was conducted with a sample size of over 1,100 employees and nearly 800 employers. "To survive in todays competitive business world, companies need to transform from a command and control culture to an empower and enhance value system. Organisations that are able to create a culture that nurtures agile, high-performance teams...

7Mar By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

India’s Leading PSU Bank SBI Launches ‘Work from Home’ Facility For Employees

Country's largest lender State Bank of India today launched a new facility to enable its employees to work from home. The Board of the bank has recently approved the 'Work from Home' policy to enable its employees to work while at home using mobile devices to address any urgent requirement they may have, that prevents their travelling to work. The lender will be using mobile computing technologies and shall have continuous control over all the enabled devices centrally to manage and secure the data and applications on the mobile devices, the bank said in a statement here today. The use of technology and services shall be monitored through carefully designed MIS and dashboard to enable improvements and refinements, it said. The bank said going forward cross-sell, marketing, CR...

Majority of Employees Prefer to Work From Home: Survey

10Jun By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Majority of Employees Prefer to Work From Home: Survey

New Delhi: A substantial number of employees are interested in working from home with the preference more prevalent among those aged above 45 years, says a survey. HR services provider Randstad today said that almost equal number of men and women opined that they would like telecommuting. "53 per cent of the respondents from India said they prefer telecommuting, while 47 per cent prefer to work from the office every day," it said citing the results of a survey on workplace flexibility. The findings are based on a survey of around 7,500 employees from India. "Almost equivalent number of male (52 per cent) and female (54 per cent) respondents mentioned that they would prefer telecommuting and this preference was high among those aged 45 years and above," it noted. As much as 58 ...