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    • Bengaluru police plans to bring low-speed e-bikes under Motor Vehicles Act as delivery drivers face scrutiny

      Speaking at Network18 Sadak Suraksha Abhiyan, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said on-campus parking of school vehicles is also on cards to ease congestion and improve safety

    • Employee says his company's RTO policy is affecting his relationship: Girlfriend works remotely

      The employee said that the daily commute to work left him exhausted. What earlier felt natural to do as a couple now requires deliberate planning: shared lunches, breaks together, and evening downtime have shrunk, replaced by recovery from the office routine.

    • 41 Gujarat vehicles get fitness certificates in Karnataka without inspection; toll plaza data exposes fraud, RTO official suspended

      The action comes after a letter from Gujarat transport department flagging irregularities detected through Vehicle e-detection portal

    • Instagram CEO asks staff to work from office, urges them to cancel unnecessary meetings

      'To create a winning culture, we need to shake up our routines,' Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said. He also outlined sweeping changes aimed at breaking away from 'business as usual' and reducing meeting fatigue.

    • 600 Paramount Skydance employees quit after being told to return to office, costs firm $185 million

      Skydance completed its $8 billion acquisition of Paramount in August, and executives warned at the newly merged entity's first press conference that layoffs would be announced in November.

    • JPMorgan CEO dismisses employees’ WFH pleas, insists on RTO: ‘Not making fun of Zoom, but…’

      The push for full-time office work comes as JPMorgan posted record-breaking annual profits in January, even as the bank laid off around 1,000 employees and signalled further cuts through mid-year.

    • Researcher says 4-day workweek boosts profits, productivity & well-being: ‘Never expected it’

      The research was carried out on more than 8,700 employees from 245 companies across multiple countries, including the US, Canada, and the UK, primarily adopting a four-day work week with no pay cut.

    • Last-mile reset: New-age logistics firms go after D2C returns, billing and other pain points

      Courier weight disputes, RTOs and NDRs have prompted D2C brands to seek smarter, more accountable logistics partners

    • Starbucks employees react to CEO's RTO mandate: 'This is the wrong direction. Please stop'

      The sudden RTO notices caught many corporate employees of Starbucks by surprise, leading some to immediately begin looking for new jobs.

    • Karnataka begins crackdown on bike taxis: 103 vehicles seized on day one

      Rapido has removed its bike taxi option in Karnataka from the app and replaced it with a 'bike parcel' service. Uber has withdrawn its ‘Moto’ bike taxi service and replaced it with a ‘Moto Parcel’ icon.

    • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reveals why he is cutting off middle managers while enforcing RTO

      Last September, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy declared he wanted to 'increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 percent by the end of Q1 2025.' The $2.3 trillion tech giant has already beat the marker.

    • JPMorgan employee was asked to 'get the f*** out of here' for questioning CEO Jamie Dimon's RTO policy

      Analyst Nicolas Welch explained to CEO Jamie Dimon that his team was composed of seven people located in different geographies, including India, and work in different time zones. So working from the office did not make sense for the team.

    • Ex-Tesla executive sues Elon Musk's company after being fired over its return to office policy

      The 55-year-old had a medical condition that aggravated due to job-related stress. Moreover, his wife threatened to divorce him if he insisted on uprooting her and their two kids.

    • Karnataka registration scam: 1,471 vehicles evade Motor Vehicle tax at Bengaluru Central RTO, cause over Rs 15 crore loss to state exchequer

      Bengaluru Police investigating the scam have started issuing notices to vehicle owners, who are registered at Bengaluru Central (HSR Layout) RTO, in a bid to recover the evaded tax. However, experts insist that the scope of the scam is much larger and call for a thorough probe to be carried out in around 70 RTOs across Karnataka.

    • Bengaluru auto rickshaw fare revision likely as transport dept calls for meeting

      Auto rickshaw drivers are demanding an increase in the minimum fare from Rs 30 to Rs 40 for the initial two kms and from Rs 15 to Rs 20 for each additional km

    • Over 500 Amazon employees write open letter to AWS CEO Matt Garman protesting RTO mandate

      This comes a month after Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said in an all-hands meeting that the majority of workers he spoke with support their decision of working from the office five days a week.

    • Manyata Tech Park in Bengaluru flooded; techies demand WFH, govt announces holiday for schools

      India's tech capital, Bengaluru, saw waterlogging and gridlocks on October 15 following heavy rains. Bengaluru Deputy Commissioner announced a holiday for all schools in Bengaluru on Wednesday due to rains. However, colleges will remain open.

    • News channel producer quits after RTO mandate: 'Never want to work in an office again'

      Jennifer Oliva said that before the pandemic, she would spend 2.5 hours commuting everyday. When work from home was enforced during the pandemic, she would spend her extra hours with her family and friends. 'I started to feel so much healthier and happier.'

    • 91% CEOs in India want to promote in-office employees over remote workers: Survey

      The report, based on responses collected from 125 Indian CEOs, stated that 78 percent of business leaders in India envision a return to an in-office working environment for their employees within the next three years.

    • Amazon orders employees to work from office 5 days a week, internet calls it 'stealth layoff'

      Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's announcement has been called a 'stealth layoff' by many on social media because it is likely to push employees who want to prioritise a better work-life balance into finding new jobs.

    • Driving tests not mandatory at RTO from June 1: Here are new licence rules

      The government also has plans to phase out 900,000 old government vehicles to reduce carbon emission. It will also enforce stricter emission norms

    • This tech company is letting its 30,000 employees across 33 countries to work fully remote

      'We have been very flexible; we will continue being very flexible,' Martin Migoya, the founder and CEO of software company Globant, said. The software company is also in the process of hiring another 20,000 employees over the next five years as part of a $1 billion investment.

    • Amazon employee quits refusing to return to office, loses stocks worth Rs 1.7 crore

      The former Amazon employee said the return-to-office policy was the sole reason he decided to quit. 'I wish I could have stayed, but it frankly felt intentional the way they were pushing people out.'

    • This techie is 'loud-quitting' after being called back to office: 'I've stayed for the paycheck'

      'I've been planning to find another job for over a year,' the 31-year-old solutions engineer said.

    • 80% of bosses regret initial plans of asking employees to return to office: Report

      The companies experiencing the most difficulty are the ones that mandated a strict return to the office three days a week without seeking employee input first, an expert said.

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