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Radhika Gupta bats for a mix of WFH & physical office once the pandemic is over.

The work-from-home (WFH) module, precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic, has been a bag of mixed blessings for employers and employees alike. Remote working comes with several side-effects, triggering mental health-related problems, ear infection due to excessive headphone usage, bad posture due to long working hours, lack of movement, among others. According to a recent survey by Gi Group, titled All in the Mind: the state of mental health in Corporate India, around 77 per cent employers fe...

From Dubai to Maldives: Rich remote workers escape to $70,000-a-month resorts while awaiting Covid vaccines Synopsis iStock Extended-stay discounts, the reopening of certain international borders, and better awareness on the precautions to take when traveling have further enabled a second-wave exodus. Related When Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California would be entering its strictest lockdown yet in mid-December, some of his most well-to-do residents ran the other way—as far as they ...

Constant need to check & reply to emails affects productivity of working professionals SECTIONS Share iStock Related A new survey conducted by Hiver shows that millennials feels that their productivity has been hampered by emails thanks to working from home. The constant need to check, reply and read emails has affected their overall productivity, causing them to get distracted from the task at hand. The survey reveals that 55 per cent of millennials in India feel that their time spent on work ...

Measurement is the key to conquer even the unknown, says Mudit Dandwate, co-founder and CEO of Bengaluru based healthcare start-up Dozee. And that lesson is crucial, especially today where countries are struggling to adapt to an evolving, mutating virus. “While we still don’t know much about how to treat the virus, we were able to eventually control it by sticking to the thumb rule - testing and educating the masses,” he told ET Panache. Dandwate believes we can apply the same learnings...