Zerodha's Nithin Kamath on why WFH can't work for all: 'It has been detrimental'

Sharing Zerodha's CTO Kailash Nadh's blog post, Nithin Kamath spoke about how ever since 10 per cent of the core workforce had started to report from work, there had been a positive change witnessed in the organisation.

The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in India in early 2020 completely changed the way professionals worked in different organisations, across various industries.

Work from home became an absolute necessity for companies in a few sectors in a bid to maintain the high standards of productivity that was seen while working from office.

But once the pandemic began receding in India and around the world, most organisations decided to get back to working from office, one of them being stock broker firm Zerodha.

On Monday, company CEO Nithin Kamath took to X (formerly Twitter) to explain why remote working had not proven to be profitable for all teams across the company and admitted that for business, tech and other key decision making teams, work from home had proven detrimental due to communication gaps.

Sharing Zerodha CTO's Kailash Nadh's blog post, Kamath spoke about how ever since 10 per cent of the core workforce had started to report from office, there had been a positive change witnessed in the organisation.

All of us at @zerodhaonline went fully remote during the pandemic lockdown in 2020. While it's been great for some, it hasn't been for others. In this post, K explains why it didn't work for everybody at Zerodha.

Work from home works well for support roles given the structured… — Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) April 1, 2024

Link to the full post. 2/2https://t.co/ATXHx7Y1rW

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— Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) April 1, 2024

Kamath's post saw several reactions from users, who gave their own opinions on the work from home vs work from office debate.

"There are people who works like a beast in WFH. It's mostly dependent on person. There is no clear winner between WFH and WFO," one user wrote.

"We have some very strong arguments in favour of both : WFH and WFO. Although people save commute time and fuel by doing WFH, but they miss a lot in terms of personal networking," another user wrote.

In an interview to Moneycontrol in 2022, Kamath had said that up to 90 per cent of Zerodha's workforce would work from home permanently and the core team would work on a hybrid model.