Corporate homes in Gujarat have not only resorted to a work-from-property policy when once more, but some have also closed their headquarters, offered the growing Covid-19 situations in the state.
Infrastructure and trading conglomerate Adani Group has decided to close its headquarters on SG highway and asked all staff to work from property. Sources in the Gautam Adani-led conglomerate mentioned a couple of buildings, which home the group’s headquarters, in the Shantigram township will stay closed till next Monday. The newly constructed headquarters have almost 5,000 staff.
Sources mentioned several of the staff live in the township. With almost one hundred situations surfacing inside the township, the management decided to shut the offices for a week.
The Indian multinational conglomerate manages diverse companies, like power, sources, logistics, agri-commodities, actual estate, economic services and aerospace, from its headquarters. The group has an annual income of more than $13 billion with operations at 70 places in 50 nations.
Another Ahmedabad-based conglomerate, Torrent Group, has also closed its headquarters and asked all staff to work from their residences. Jayesh Desai, executive director of Torrent Group, mentioned the choice was taken to guard staff from the coronavirus infection.
Desai mentioned, on the other hand, that operations at Torrent Group’s plants continue, and technical and other employees working at plants are following the needed protocol. The `21,500-crore group’s core companies of gas, pharmaceuticals and energy are managed from its headquarters.
Though India’s most significant private sector organization, Reliance Industries (RIL), is headquartered in Mumbai, most of its organization interests — like one of the most significant crude oil refineries in Asia — are in Gujarat.
RIL has converted two townships adjoining its crude oil refineries at Jamnagar and Vadodara into fortresses. According to its spokesperson, no outsiders are permitted to enter the townships till additional notice. “Even those who go out of the township for some work are asked to quarantine for 14 days before they return. Most employees have been asked to work from home, and only those who are require for on-site operations are going to work at the refineries,” he mentioned.
The $550-million Ahmedabad-based Meghmani Group has also shut its headquarters in Prahaladnagar. Ashish Soparkar, managing director of Meghmani Organics, a flagship organization of the group, mentioned the management has asked about 200 staff from headquarters to work from property till additional notice. Soparkar mentioned operations at Meghmani’s dye and chemical manufacturing plants in Ahmedabad, Dahej and Bharuch haven’t been impacted by the second wave of the pandemic. Operations are going smoothly with all the needed precautions, he mentioned.