WFH to 'phygital' and virtual commute: How Covid has changed working world

What is 'normal' going to look like for offices in the new year?

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Coronavirus | Work from home | workplace

Ranjita Ganesan  |  Mumbai 

Working lives became truly “flexible” in 2020. Homes morphed into co-working spaces. Teapoys, dining tables and kitchen counters doubled as desks.

Comfortable pyjamas -- or, in Anand Mahindra’s case, lungis -- became permissible workwear. Ten months after workplaces first emptied out in the final weeks of March, a large portion of the salaried population is still operating remotely. ‘WFH’, among Oxford Language’s recently chosen “Words of an Unprecedented Year”, is likely to continue into 2021 too. For companies and employees alike, the ...

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First Published: Sat, December 26 2020. 06:10 IST
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