HT vacates part of HT House, plans future of work with McKinsey

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The following email was sent to the employees of Hindustan Times in New Delhi on 21 August.

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From: Monical Aggarwal
To: Editorial Delhi
Date: 21 August 2020, 6.50pm
Subject: Office transition — HT House

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Hi all,

I hope you are doing good.

Further to Praveen’s townhall held on 12th of this month, where he spoke about “future of work”, and McKinsey’s work around it under Project ‘GRow’; three working models have been identified-

1. Work From Office Model - Jobs requiring a high level of real-team collaboration and technology, consequently making such role holders work from the office.
2. Roster Model - jobs where role-holders have to come for a couple of days every week to the office.
3. Work From Home Model - jobs where role-holders can work from home permanently.

Over the past few months many of you were contacted by us to understand your daily activities, tech & collaboration needs, etc. to arrive at the working-model for your role archetype. This activity is concluded now-working-model for every unique role, and employee is identified. Company is revisiting the existing policies, processes, workflow designs, candence around meetings, hot-desking etc. to ensure a seamless transition to the new working models and establish a sense of inclusion for everyone irrespective of his/her physical presence in the office.

In addition, as part of this exercise, our future space requirement has come down drastically, and we will be relinquishing our office space o the 2nd Floor, HT House. As a result, a few people will move from the 2nd Floor to the 1st Floor. The existing space on the 1st Floor is being reorganized for all the teams. You may need to visit the office next week to pick up your belongings as your current workstation may get allocated to another person/team. You will be shortly hearing from your HR representatives on the same.

Please note, considering the health and safety of each one of us, you are expected to continue to work the way you are currently working until any further communication is received. However, post the same, you would be working as per your new working model.

Stay safe; stay healthy.

You can read about all the cutbacks in Indian newsrooms so far at https://link.medium.com/Waf8GJraY5