While ending the long work from home regime, the government has asked all its employees to attend their offices amid declining Covid-19 cases in the country.
Work From Home Ends For Central Government Employees
The rule is already implemented following the Union ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions decision announcement in a statement.
So far, the country has been recording a lower number of Covid-19 cases, with the daily infections remaining below the one lakh mark a day back.
On Sunday, February 6, the Union ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions said that it was decided that the government would enable 100 percent work from office from February 7, Monday, following a meeting chaired by Union minister Jitendra Singh.
Government Employees Needs To Adhere With COVID Appropriate Behavior
Further clarifying, the statement from the personnel ministry said, “…Dr Jitendra Singh announced this evening that a review of the pandemic situation was done today and in view of the decline in the number of COVID cases as well as decline in positivity rate, it has been decided that full office attendance shall be resumed from tomorrow and employees at all levels, without any exemption, shall attend office on regular basis with effect from February 7, 2022,”.
The statement mentioned that the head of departments shall, however, ensure that employees wear face masks at all times and continue to follow the COVID appropriate behavior even if they do not work from home.
These guidelines will be implemented till February 15, according to the ministry.
IT Companies Continues With Work From Home Regime
“This is in supersession of the earlier Circular according to which the 50 per cent office attendance rule had been extended till 15th of February. But, after obtaining inputs from the relevant quarters and review of the situation, a fresh OM (Office Memorandum) is issued by the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) informing that all the employees at all levels, without any exemption, will report to office from tomorrow, that is, 7th of February 2022. There will no longer be a “work from home” option for any employee,” the ministry said.
In the meantime, most of the IT companies, including TCS, HCL Technologies, Cognizant, Infosys plans to monitor the emergence and impact of Covid-19 variants before calling people back to office.
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