Tata Steel comes up with Permanent Work-from-home Policy!

Tata Steel has come up with a new working policy that facilitates its employees to work-from-home (WFH) for up to 365 days a year. The said policy will allow a large number of its workforce to WFH even after the pandemic subsides.

According to sources in Tata Steel, the policy which implies 'Agile Working Models' has been effective from November 1. Now officers who are required to be based out of a particular location can now work from home for unlimited days in a year, according to the new models.

"This policy is a shift in mindset from monitoring to creating trust and outcome-based work culture. Flexible working not only portrays an organization’s intent to create a workplace for the upcoming generations but also solidifies its intent to cater to the needs of its diversified workforce across geographies," Suresh Dutt Tripathi, the vice president, Human Resource Management, Tata Steel said to media.

Further, he added, "flexible working provides greater freedom to choose locations and make essential life decisions such as supporting families, be it aging parents or spouse with a non-transferable job,".

Now the company is planning to start shifting different roles such as IT support, digital marketing, sales and HR, strategy and planning, quality management to work-from-anywhere mode as a part of the strategy.

The company is getting used to the benefits of absolute WFH, say around 20% to 30% of the roles that can actually work from any location. They are now in the process of digitally enabling people with the aim to manage machines and mills remotely. The policy will be based on trust with a one-year learning period.

In case of problems regarding salary structure, delivery or employees enjoying too much flexibility, "company will want to have answers". According to Tata group the "policy is mostly here to stay."