Businesses providing a hybrid mannequin have decreased to 56.5 per cent in 2024 from 62.3 per cent final yr. (Representative picture)
The onset of the pandemic round 4 years in the past triggered a transfer to working from dwelling, which provided loads of flexibility for all the employees.
With a bigger variety of entities preferring to shift their work again to places of work, there was a decline in girls workforce in senior administration roles in firms, a report stated on Thursday.
This is the third consecutive yr that the share of girls within the senior administration roles ‘considered essential for promoting diversity at workplaces’ continued to say no, the report by consultancy agency Grant Thornton Bharat stated.
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The onset of the pandemic round 4 years in the past triggered a transfer to working from dwelling, which provided loads of flexibility for all the employees. However, with issues getting again to regular, there was a shift to working from places of work and lots of firms are additionally ending the hybrid work fashions which that they had adopted because the pandemic waned.
The report, which comes forward of the International Women’s Day on March 8, is predicated on the inputs from about 300 girls in senior administration roles from as many firms.
The consultancy agency stated 34 per cent of girls in Indian mid-market companies at present maintain senior administration positions, which is modestly down from 36 per cent in 2023 and 38 per cent in 2022.
It, nevertheless, pressured that the present share is way larger when in comparison with the 12 per cent determine in 2004 and 14 per cent a decade in the past in 2014.
Businesses providing a hybrid mannequin have decreased to 56.5 per cent in 2024 from 62.3 per cent final yr, whereas these asking workers to return to the workplace have elevated to 34.7 per cent in 2024 from 27.4 per cent in 2023.
It stated employees figuring out of their houses has additionally considerably dipped to 1.8 per cent in 2024 from 5.3 per cent in 2023.
The consultancy agency’s chief enterprise officer Satya Jha stated the necessity of the hour is to permit workers to work flexibly.
“Measuring the number of women who have moved into senior management positions is very important to understand whether, internally, women are being championed to progress and move up the ladder,” Pallavi Bakhru, a accomplice on the consultancy agency, stated.
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