Coronavirus: DoT relaxes work from home norms for IT-ITeS firms

New Delhi: The Department of Telecom (DoT) has relaxed certain norms for Other Service Providers (OSPs) till April 30 to facilitate work from home (WFH) amid the coronavirus outbreak. These include exemptions in requirement of security deposit and agreement for WFH facility for OSPs (IT and IT-enabled services companies), as well as the need for prior permission for offering the facility.

Industry body Nasscom and leaders of the IT industry had requested the government to relax the norms to facilitate business continuity that is posing to be a major challenge for the sector.

Nasscom, in a tweet on Friday, thanked Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and his team for “the much needed relaxation”.