Half of India Inc bats for full office return

Less Than 3rd Of Cos Offer Hybrid Option, Just 16% Allow Work-From-Home: Survey

- Namrata.Singh @timesgroup.com

More organisations are pushing employees to attend office at 46% as compared to those offering hybrid (32%) or work-from-home (16%) options.

Among these, manufacturing companies are entirely mandating a return to office, followed by BFSI (banking, financial services & insurance) firms at 68% and retail at 57%. Meanwhile, a significant share of IT (53%) and BPO (45%) firms operate in the hybrid way, while 24% of BPOs and 18% of IT firms are offering a WFH mandate, according to a study conducted exclusively for TOI by recruitment firm Randstad India Considering that this study was concluded in the second week of September, it is likely that more IT employees would also have moved to a hybrid work mode recently. Even as most organisations have reiterated they have imbibed several learnings from the last two years of working, the study reveals that companies that offer employees the choice to pick a working style option stands at a meagre 6%.