NITES Urges India to Mandate IT Work-From-Home as Modi Pushes Fuel Saving Amid Oil Price Rise
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Updated · The Hindu · May 11
NITES Urges India to Mandate IT Work-From-Home as Modi Pushes Fuel Saving Amid Oil Price Rise
6 articles · Updated · The Hindu · May 11
NITES on May 11 asked Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to issue an advisory making work-from-home mandatory for IT and IT-enabled services jobs wherever feasible for an appropriate period.
The employee body tied the request to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 10 appeal to cut fuel use as oil prices rise and the West Asia crisis deepens.
NITES said daily commuting in metro cities wastes fuel and adds health and environmental costs, arguing remote work should be treated as a national-support measure rather than an employee perk.
The group cited India’s COVID-19 experience, saying large-scale work-from-home had already preserved productivity and business continuity, strengthening its case for another temporary shift.
As an oil crisis cripples India, will tech companies be forced to send employees home to save the economy?
Could a fuel crisis permanently dismantle the office model for India's 5.8 million IT professionals?