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V CHECKLIST QUESTIONS FOR KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEWS (KIIs)

I. CHAIRMAN CUM MANAGING DIRECTOR (CMD), PSEs
Q.1 In your view, how SMART - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and
Timely - companies should react to the “new normal” – like Work from Home
(WfH) arrangement, under COVID?
Q.2 In your view, how is COVID pandemic affecting the way your company
operates, and its business outcomes?
Q.3 Does your company have a work from home policy? In your view, what
women centric and/or gender specific aspects a company must include while
drafting a WfH policy as response to COVID?
Q.4 Do you think Work from Home (WfH) arrangement affected/affects your
employees’ level of productivity/efficiency? In what specific ways?
Q.5 When adopting WfH arrangement due to crisis like COVID, what are some of
the key obligations companies have towards their employees?
Q.6 Statement: Due to WfH, many women are now more than ever faced with
the burden of “double syndrome”: e-managing their paid work with unpaid
caring responsibilities thereby risking falling behind in their work/careers. How
true is this statement?
In your view, following COVID, the WfH arrangement did it require companies
to become more empathetic towards supporting their women employees?
Please share company experience.
Q.7 Statement: WfH can act as a deterrent especially to women employees’
promotion and leadership aspirations. How true is this statement?
Q.8 To what extent did your Company adjust performance management systems
to cover WfH arrangement? Or, do you think it was not necessary?
Q.9 Statement: Remote work helps achieve workplace equality as there are less
chances of biases and stereotypes.
Q.10 Do you think WfH arrangement will provide a unique opportunity for
women by making companies more equal and inclusive?
Q.11 On a scale of 1 (very low) – 5 (very high) how would you rate your
company's remote work from home policy? What is the reason behind this
rating?
Q.12 What were your biggest concern about employees working remotely?
Considering we may be in the situation of working remotely for a while, is this
WfH model sustainable?
Q.13 Is there anything that you did before that you are unable to do now
because of WfH which is adversely affecting your company’s work and
performance?
Q.14 Is your business model resilient enough to recover from the COVID
impact? In what ways would your company evolve out of the situation
keeping also employee welfare in mind?

II. HEAD – HUMAN RESOURCES (HR) UNIT

Q.1 Does your company have a work from home (WfH) policy? When adopting
WfH arrangement due to crisis like COVID, what are some of the key obligations
companies have towards their employees?
Q.2 On a scale of 1 (very low) – 5 (very high) how would you rate your company's
remote work from home policy? What is the reason behind this rating?
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