Flipkart and Amazon play against Coronavirus, test work from home

With the outbreak of coronavirus in India, top e-commerce companies including Walmart-owned Flipkart and Amazon are testing out the future of work, and are telling their employees to do their jobs from home.

While Amazon India has begun a dry-run for work from home, Flipkart has told its 10,000 odd staff at its Bellandur campus in Bengaluru to work offsite for three days as a part of a pilot project for business continuity. Flipkart is checking system preparedness for working remotely using digital and video tools, according to the people familiar with the matter. The e-commerce firm has made it compulsory