In the private sector, a work-from-home culture is fast gaining popularity because of torturous daily commutes it saves employees and the productivity gains it offers employers. But the public sector still has a lot of catching up to do. In state-run power producer NTPC Ltd., 18 senior level employees have been asked to work from home, ostensibly to \u201coptimize manpower”, according to a report in the Hindu BusinessLine. But the employees are feeling uneasy. Their fear: this could distance them from the main work environment\u2014a possible lead-up to their redundancy.<\/p>\n
The resistance of NTPC\u2019s employees revives a debate over whether a work-from-home culture should be promoted. It has undeniable advantages. In cities such as Mumbai and Bangalore, where transport infrastructure is crumbling under the weight of a traffic overload, people often spend hours together trying to reach their workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the private sector, a work-from-home culture is fast gaining popularity because of torturous daily commutes it saves employees and the productivity gains it offers employers. But the public sector still has a lot of catching up to do. In state-run power producer NTPC Ltd., 18 senior level employees have been asked to work from home, ostensibly to \u201coptimize manpower”, according to a report in the Hindu BusinessLine. But the employees are feeling uneasy. Their fear: this could distance them from the main work environment\u2014a possible lead-up to their redundancy. The resistance of NTPC\u2019s employees revives a debate over whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}