Work from home to continue for ‘some more months,’ Karnataka Dy CM says

Work from home arrangements will continue for IT companies and others for “some more months” due to the ongoing coronavirus situation, the Karnataka government clarified on Thursday.

According to Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwathnarayan, the state government cannot direct companies to open offices. “They will open up eventually when the time is right. There is no thought before the government to ask companies to make its employees attend work at offices. The situation isn’t appropriate for us to ask so as well,” he said.

Due to the pandemic, several IT and related sector companies in Karnataka, especially Bengaluru, had provided their employees a work from home/remote working option after closing their office spaces from March this year. Meanwhile, the Centre had also extended connectivity norms to enable the same till December 31, 2020.