Amid hardship, startups stand up to be counted

Mumbai: Some of the country’s top technology startups are rolling out a slew of initiatives to help employees as well as their families cope with medical emergencies, financial upheaval due to untimely deaths and for vaccination against Covid-19, amid the second wave of the pandemic.

While Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has said the online payments company will continue to pay salaries to the families of deceased employees throughout the current financial year, food delivery platform Zomato said it would provide 100% of the deceased employee’s income for two years to the family.

Home and personal services marketplace Urban Company as well as ed tech giant Byju’s have set up dedicated funds to support employees.