India Inc plans to offer long-term hybrid work models to help employees balance work & life

India Inc plans to adopt a long-term or permanent hybrid working model once offices are open over the next few months as prolonged remote working has started taking a toll on employees through blurring of work-life boundaries and rising fatigue levels.
Companies across sectors are working on plans to adopt permanent hybrid working – where employees will go to office some days and work remotely the other days – for 35-60% of their white-collar workforce, shows a survey of 400 companies conducted exclusively for ET by staffing firm Ciel HR Services.
“Companies adopting the hybrid model have observed model have observed that there was an increase in productivity,” said Aditya Narayan Mishra, CEO of Ciel HR.
IT & IT services companies plan to hot-desk up to 60% of their employees permanently, while those in manufacturing and engineering, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), automobile, pharma and healthcare, banking, financial services and insurance, and so on may introduce the model for 35-45% their office workforce, the survey showed.
Companies will adopt hybrid working in a big way for functions such as IT, finance, sales, procurement, human resources and administration, it said.