
Source | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Prachi Verma | Yogima Seth Sharma
New Delhi: The government move to formalise remote working for the service sector is likely to help create more job opportunities for women, especially in smaller cities and towns, in the coming months, experts said.
With the labour ministry’s draft model standing orders for the service sector proposing to empower companies to allow employees to work from home permanently, many IT firms are expected to hire more women, particularly in tier-2 and 3 cities where more women than men had lost their jobs during the pandemic