More Than 50% of Employees at A Top Tech Company To WFH Even After COVID-19 Ends

With work from home (WFH) being the new normal, Amit Midha, president, Asia Pacific and Japan of a renowned technology company said that more than 50 percent of employees at Dell Technologies will continue to work remotely even after the COVID-19 pandemic ends. 

In mid-March, nearly 90 percent of Dell’s global workforce was working from home while in India, the number was close to 100 percent. 

As per a Live Mint report, Dell has created a real-time data driven dashboard which is known as the ‘Inversed Risk Matrix’. It helps to assess the situation and make appropriate decisions on returning to office, or site, as Dell calls it. 

“Our data scientists in collaboration with medical professionals built the tool to help us make sense of all the health data to make informed decisions that put the health and safety of our team members and communities first," said John Scimone, chief security officer, Dell Technologies.

"The data is automatically refreshed and checked multiple times a day. The tool is not just helping employees return to site safely, but also to safely remain in the offices and make other decisions about travel and events," he added.

Regards returning to office, Dell is taking a “conservative and phased" approach. Meanwhile, the company also stated that it will prioritise based on those team members who can be more productive on-site or have challenges working from home. 

Even before the pandemic, Dell launched the ‘Connected Workplace’ initiative in 2009 that uses technology to provide flexibility to support the jobs and lifestyles of its staff. This new plan is based on the premise that work should be linked to outcomes and not anchored to a specific place or time, Live Mint further reported. 

“We are training our employees to work safely in the new remote environment," Scimone finally said.