OYO Hotels & Homes announced that it would be covering vaccination costs for all employees in India and their families. OYO India employees and their family members will benefit from this as they can choose to get the vaccination done at any centre convenient to them and the costs would be reimbursed in full by OYO. Additionally, the company has also enhanced the insurance benefit of employees to include a COVID-19 home care cover.
With the aim to build a healthier and productive workforce, OYO has been revising and adding new employees’ policies year-on-year keeping employee well being at the forefront. The company is now offering its employees a host of benefits including free annual health checks, 24X7 doctor consultation, one-on-one counselling sessions and other services such as a COVID-19 test booking, online medicines ordering facilities and more. The company also added a psychiatric cover and an increased maternity cover.
OYO also launched #RiseEqually initiative to announce a change in its parental leave policy. Amending the policy, the company has now increased paternity leave to 4 weeks from the earlier period of 2 weeks. New parents will also get an additional leave of 8 weeks of work-from-home and 8 additional weeks on half-pay. From this April, OYO employees in India will receive their salaries on the 25th of every month (or earlier) in order to enable them to plan their monthly finances and long term savings better.
