ICICI Bank said it will allow its 21,000 women to work from home for up to one year and even take their children and care-giver on business trips. The bank has about 70,000 employees and 30% of them are women. The bank had earlier conducted a survey among its women employees who left the bank and nearly two-thirds of those surveyed said they quit their job because of child care responsibilities and long commutes, said the bank’s spokesperson. Taking cognizance of this problem, it has now introduced its iWork@home initiative on a pilot basis. While the program will enable employees to work from home for up to a year initially, it can be further extended, said the bank. The bank is giving women access to their required operating systems to help them work from home. This includes a facial recognition technology to ensure that no one can impersonate the employee and get access to its applications. The technology platform for this has been developed in-house by ICICI Bank in partnership with students from IIT, Delhi.
