“For example, the Employment Act defines work hours to be eight hours a day, and not more than 10 hours without overtime. He says employees must keep communications open at all times during work hours if they are working from home. “Any accident during working hours, if the worker is at home and even working from his bed, should be protected by social security, ” he says. Once you work from home, you must ensure you put in the necessary working hours, ” he says. Even before Covid-19, the office was designed based on an activity- based style of working instead of each worker being desk-bound.

Source: The Star March 27, 2021 22:18 UTC