State Bank of India lets bankers work from home this Women’s day

State lender and public sector bank, State Bank of India on Women’s day launched a new facility to enable its employees to work from home starting tomorrow.

“The Board of the Bank recently approved the “Work from Home” Policy to enable its employees to work from home using mobile devices to address any urgent requirement the employee may have, that prevents their travelling to work. It is seen as a major employee centric initiative and is expected to benefit employees, especially women employees,” the bank said.

The bank said that employess will have ‘continuous control’ over all the enabled devices centrally to manage and secure the data and applications on the mobile devices.

The bank said that the use of technology and services shall be monitored through carefully designed MIS and dashboard to enable improvements and refinements. 

SBI further said, “Going forward, Cross-Sell, Marketing, CRM, Social Media Management, Settlement & Reconciliation, Complaints Management applications etc. will also be enabled to make the work from home services comprehensive and increase the employee productivity multi-fold while making the Bank employee friendly.”