national lockdown in the spring of 2020. Randstad India is now being steered remotely.Of course, the covid-19 outbreak and the work-from-home culture that it ushered in has put a stop to routines like the one Dupuis adopted at the Bengaluru office in order to pick up tacit signals from the workplace environment.
Working remotely has changed everything. “How do you establish your presence; build that rapport? Gauging the mood is so hard in the virtual world," Dupuis said.Over the decades, the corporate world has worked to build a Brand CEO and establish him or her as the boss—the ultimate authority at whose desk the buck stopped.