With flexibility and agility at its core, Whirlpool of India Ltd has handheld its employees through multiple pandemic waves
Rachna Kumar, VP, human resources , Whirlpool Asia, and Vishal Bhola, MD, Whirlpool of India Ltd
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In 2020, as the world was blindsided by a little-known virus, most corporates scurried to firefight on the go. There were no guidelines, and even less knowledge of how long a shutdown Covid-19 would enforce.
At Whirlpool of India Ltd, too, 2020 was all about getting employees comfortably settled at remote workstations and rolling out the still-nebulous work-from-home (WFH) framework. A year later, the company has emerged wiser, learning to live seamlessly with the troughs and peaks of Covid’s multiple waves.
(This story appears in the 11 March, 2022 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)