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As India reopens after a hiatus of two years, cities like Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Pune have seen employees returning to workplaces at a relatively faster rate, a new report showed on Thursday.

Domestic companies have been at the forefront of bringing employees back to offices in a phased manner.

It is vital to note that, most prospects and potential customers have been forced to rethink their buying priorities, preferences, and spending plans. Their buying decision-making has been greatly affected by their current financial and economic situation. Business owners must therefore consider the purchasing power of their clients to invest in their products or services. Many businesses in Accra have started to offer special “pandemic deals” in response to attract customers during the coronavirus recession.

Nearly a decade after the BSE and the NSE set up dedicated platforms for the listing of India’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), the number of SMEs actually listing via IPOs has increased rapidly in the last year or so, propelled no doubt by stock markets and the mainstream IPO boom after the first wave of the pandemic.

In fact, the number of SME IPOs from September 2020 to September 2021 stood at 40, not far behind the number of mainstream IPOs at 51.