Amid layoffs at Infosys, Google, Microsoft, bad news for Flipkart employees as it asks them to work..

Flipkart gave its employees the flexibility to work from home in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, in a major administrative moove, the Walmart-owned e-commerce major has ended its work-from-home (WFH) option and has asked all employees to return to the office five days a week.

The company’s move to call all employees back to the office comes at a time when the e-commerce landscape in India is evolving rapidly, especially with the rise of quick commerce. It also comes at a time when tech majors such as Infosys, Google, Microsoft are in laying off mode terming it as re-structural move.

In the process of rolling it back, it first asked senior employees—largely vice presidents and above—to work from the office more regularly. But now, Flipkart has mandated all employees to return and work from the office in phases over the next few months. There are also exceptions in some cases, depending on the nature of the job. Furthermore, all employees are given a certain number of days which they can avail when they want to WFH.

The company’s move to call all employees back to the office comes at a time when the e-commerce landscape in India is evolving rapidly, especially with the rise of quick commerce.

In fact, Flipkart is among the last new-age firms, especially in the e-commerce space, to end its WFH policy.

A few months ago, its arch rival Amazon, which is also preparing to launch its own rapid delivery arm, mandated that all its employees return to Bengaluru as they will be expected to work from the office five days a week.

Similarly, Meesho employees have been working from the office five days a week for more than a year now.

Even in the quick commerce industry, where Flipkart Minutes competes with Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart, among others, Flipkart is among the last to ask employees to return to work.

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