After allowing its women employees to work part-time or from home, ICICI Bank, the country’s largest private bank, plans to extend the facility to its male employees. “Currently, we have about 150200 women members who are on board with our work-from-home policy. We plan to scale it up to 500 to 700-plus by the middle of the year. Once we have that reasonable number, we will launch the scheme for male employees. This should be done by October,” TK Srirang, senior general manager and head, human resources at ICICI Bank, told HT.
Moorthy Uppaluri, CEO, Randstad India, an HR consultancy firm, said, “This definitely helps reduce costs. Work-from-home can help reduce attrition by providing more flexibility. It is a win-win for companies and employees.”