Logging in with facemasks: Offices look different as staff returns to work

Office life in these cities resumed on Monday, albeit cautiously and with full knowledge of the need to maintain social distancing.

Offices that had shut operations in March following the lockdown stayed that way on Monday in Mumbai as most business houses including the Tatas, the Birlas, Reliance, Mahindra & Mahindra, Vedanta, and Procter & Gamble awaited state guidelines on the fourth phase of the curbs. The only exceptions here were pharmaceutical companies, which continued to operate with skeleton staff.

If Mumbai’s office life was far from normal on the first day of the fourth phase of the lockdown, the picture was different in some other key metros of the country, such as Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi, and Chennai.

Office life in these cities