Permanent work from home roles emerge as a favourite with Indian jobseekers: Naukri

With a change in workspace dynamics, employees are preferring permanent work from home opportunities, data from jobs aggregator Naukri.com revealed.

In the past six months, 32 lakh job searches for permanent and temporary remote jobs were made by Indian job seekers, of which about 57% were for permanent remote jobs.

After rolling out a special feature on the job board, the firm saw over 93,000 permanent and temporary remote jobs being listed on its site, of which permanent remote roles made up 22%.

For last two years, work space dynamics has changed due to the pandemic. Though things are opening up gradually, corporates largely believe that hybrid work is here to stay at least in the near to medium term.

“There is a foundational change in how recruiters are setting up organisational structures. While uncertainty prevails due to the pandemic, more and more recruiters are acknowledging the benefits of work from anywhere like access to talent and more inclusion and are now beginning to make permanent changes to the human resource and infrastructure requirements at a corporate level,” said Pawan Goyal, chief business officer of Naukri.

As uncertainty continues to lurk, companies are now choosing to go completely remote or hybrid, either permanently or temporarily.

“Moreover, companies have carefully considered the option of making some job profiles completely remote where the roles require a high individual contribution, especially popular in IT, software and BPO industries,” the job board said adding that the preferences of jobseekers have evolved and the hybrid model suits many job profiles that have low intervention on a day to day basis.

Both large and small companies have posted all three types of jobs -- regular jobs, temporary work-from-home and fully remote jobs.

Data shows that IT software, software services, ITeS and recruitment/staffing sectors are posting more permanent remote jobs. Some of the companies posting both temporary and permanent remote jobs are Amazon, Tech Mahindra, HCL, PWC, Trigent, Flipkart, Siemens, Deloitte, Oracle, Zensar, TCS, and Capgemini, according to Naukri.