Employee can take as many days off as he/she is unwell
The group earlier had an annual sick leave quota of 10 days that could be accumulated. It has done away with that and introduced a policy where if someone is sick he/she needs to keep the supervisor informed and can take as many days off as he/she is unwell.
Godrej says that after introducing this system of unlimited sick leaves recently, the average number of sick leaves taken by its employees has come down to 8 days per year from 9.2 days a year two years ago. "Contrary to popular belief that you give the employee a facility and it will be misused, we actually see employees getting far more conscientiousness in terms of looking at things like this," said Mitra.
Also, Godrej's new building in Vikroli campus has no attendance recording. There is only swipe which is for security and access. "We are removing the policies and infrastructures that bind you," said Mitra.
Making a big change in its hospitalisation and insurance policy, the group has reduced the number of levels to just two from 5-6 slabs earlier. This means all managers, from the managing director down to an entry level manager, will have the same hospitalisation limit. The limit for internal company coverage on hospitalisation at Godrej is set at Rs 6 lakh. Also, the company will now take care of 50% of the hospitalisation expense beyond the limit.
Going forward, the group plans to have just one level, giving a salesman the same hospitalisation benefits as the managing director.
Also, this year the group has taken a conscious focus on gender diversity. It has created a full-time team of senior managers who will be focusing on gender and has set specific gender diversity targets for group companies for the next three years. To monitor this, the group has set up a diversity council that consists of all business heads. It has also started sensitisation and training around diversity for all employees and runs a network on women.
To encourage cross functional movements, the group has made a policy decision that any job in Godrej will be advertised to everyone across the group.
Earlier jobs were advertised internally to the same business. If one is selected for a post, his/her employer must release that employee within three months.
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