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The report finds that the shift to remote work has allowed employers to hire talent beyond where they physically operate

A version of the company’s Workspace offering will be tailored specifically for frontline workers, such as retail and health-care employees, the Alphabet Inc. unit said

• Learn the tricks to reading the nonverbal cues of your bosses and co-workers, from expressions in tiny Zoom windows to email punctuation

• Availability of digital infrastructure in tier-2 cities has helped greatly many businesses to thrive, Azim Premji said

Unlike the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns, which sent people on road trips and to second homes, the second wave has globally triggered a desire for more permanent, warmer, far-flung escapes

• Return dates get pushed to September or beyond, keeping firms and employees in ‘moment of limbo’

• Some workers whose jobs require them to be in a physical office will continue to go in to work
• Salesforce said its work-from-anywhere plan offers the company better ways to broaden its workforce to new geographies

A behavioral economist answers questions on activity breaks, getting feedback and emergency savings

• More educated and high earning professionals were able to work from home. Younger respondents and women are also more likely to be working from home, the latest Yougov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey shows

• Want to take your job to a distant land? Post-pandemic immigration and tax policies could make it easier in the coming years.

• Innovations to support new organizational practices are a long-drawn process, as the world has seen after the Industrial Revolution

• Companies added new benefits and revamped existing programs to address challenges of remote work

• For the massive shift to a virtual workspace from a traditional office setup, companies had to procure laptops for all employees and move applications to the cloud almost overnight

Along with cruises and flights to nowhere, airplane window digital display taps into yearning to travel again.

• • Set boundaries for yourself. Try blocking out your time and communicate with your supervisor

Americans say they've actually adapted fine to home offices and dining room table workstations, and most want to continue working from home after the pandemic

Cook said that because of the challenges of recent months, Apple will be giving employees in many regions an additional paid holiday scheduled for Jan 4

• Amazon has invested significant funds and resources to keep those who choose to come to the office safe through physical distancing, deep cleaning, temperature checks, and by providing face coverings and hand sanitizer

• On the purchase of EOS M200, customers will get a Blaupunkt earbuds set worth ₹7,999
• Customers can also enjoy an extended 3-year warranty, available on all Canon’s Full Frame cameras

• Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced several months ago that it will continue letting employees work from home until July 2021
• Amazon had previously said workers could stay home until early 2021