State Bank of India launches ‘Work from Home’ facility for employees

Country’s largest lender State Bank of India on Tuesday launched a new facility to enable its employees to work from home. The Board of the bank has recently approved the ‘Work from Home’ policy to enable its employees to work while at home using mobile devices to address any urgent requirement they may have, that prevents their traveling to work.

The lender will be using mobile computing technologies and shall have continuous control over all the enabled devices centrally to manage and secure the data and applications on the mobile devices, the bank said in a statement in Mumbai on Tuesday.

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

The bank said going forward cross-sell, marketing, CRM, social media management, settlement & reconciliation, complaints management applications will also be enabled to make the work from home services comprehensive and increase the employee productivity multifold.