New Delhi: With the pandemic disrupting the work-from-office culture, a new survey on Thursday revealed that 59 per cent of employers in India are not in favor of teleworking.
According to a survey conducted by the job website, 67 percent of large and 70 percent of medium-sized Indian businesses compared to their global counterparts (60 percent of large and 34 percent of medium-sized) are not in favor of a post-pandemic, long-distance setup.
Even digitally agile startups have indicated they will return to the pandemic after an office model, with 90 percent saying they would not like to work further remotely if a solution to the pandemic is available.
“Telework has served as an equalizer, encouraging businesses to redesign and reorganize their work models, encouraging employees to adapt to new concepts of flexibility and productivity,” said Sashi Kumar, Managing Director, Indeed India , said in a statement.
More than 45 percent of employees also said that reverse migration is temporary and 50 percent of employees said they were willing to move back from their homeland to a subway.
They attributed a future return to aspects such as the availability of work from home (WFH) (29 percent) and bringing the pandemic under control (24 percent), with only 9 percent saying they are permanently in their home country will stay.
According to the survey, which includes 1,200 employees and 600 employers, only 32 percent said they are willing to adopt any form of wage reduction, even if it means they have to find work in their home country.
The willingness to take a pay cut to work from their hometowns is declining with the hierarchy – 88 per cent at senior level say they are not willing to take a pay cut, and 50 per cent say they are going to a metro would move back if their job required It.
The pandemic has hit boomers more than millennials in terms of job prospects, and nearly twice as many boomers (44 percent) as millennials (25 percent) say it will be difficult to find work in their own place.
Also, 61 percent of the bloomers are not willing to take a wage cut from their hometowns.
Source: Telangana Today