Increase greenery, enhance public transport, and promote work-from-home.

Most important criterion is whether job can be done remotely, president says.

MEF says it's fair to cut pay of those working from home.

This will help blunt Omicron surge in addition to vaccines.

Employees who can work remotely can request full-time remote work.

Finance Ministry report also says more companies will adopt digitalisation.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a growing work-from-home (WFH) culture across many sectors.

Ministry says 95,142 of 517,144 applications received approval to operate during lockdown.

The work from home move for at least 40pct of private sector workers is to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection.

Union reminds the risks of productivity losses if workplace clusters force operations to be shut down.

UPDATED 8.15PM | Work-from-home order implemented by govt last October.

The approach should be continued due to the positive effects, not only on employees but also in many other aspects.

Pointless to implement work-from-home if environment is unsuitable, says Adnan Mat.

UPDATED 8.45PM | This will apply to all states under either a conditional or recovery MCO.

PM Muhyiddin Yassin says this will also enable women to remain in employment.

Working from home or acronym WFH has become new normal to organizations, business and government agencies alike. The risk of the disease spread is contained by not having a percentage of the employee at business premises.

The closure of all schools in the country has left parents with young children in a dilemma.

We can all probably agree that 2020 has really been something else! When we rang in the new year, we definitely weren't expecting to spend most of it isolated at home.

The govt has given this chance to let people work from home, and not to go out for leisure or to go shopping, says Health DG.

KINIGUIDE | We aim to answer questions regarding govt order for managers to work from home, among others.

Human Resources minister also says salary payments should be made as usual.

The minister also says his daily press conferences would complement Health DG's updates on all health-related matters.

Union blasts govt's directive over who should stay home, change in red zone swab test policy.

UPDATED 1.15PM | 'Half-baked' directive proves lack of coordination among ministries, says Hannah Yeoh.

Covid-19 tests mandatory for foreign workers in construction and security, as well as all symptomatic workers.

COVID-19 | Informal sectors including retail, food, agriculture and convenience shops can operate as usual, he says.

Cuepacs president Adnan Mat said that those in managerial positions should also be considered for the order.

UPDATED 3.10PM | COVID-19 | However, this is limited to certain rules of four hours per day, three days per week.

UPDATED 5.48PM | COVID-19 | Workers who need to go to the office will have to undergo swab tests.

All non-essential staff at Shah Alam facility requested to work from home.