Most of staff at IT companies continue to Work From Home

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Companies Switching to Permanent Work From Home
TCS announced that a whopping 75% of its 4.48 lakh employees globally will work from home by 2025. The Company has announced the way for 25 by 25 vision—by 2025

Most staff at TCS, Infosys, HCL, and Wipro continue to work from home

In wake of the pandemic, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended the relaxation in work from home (WFH) norms till 31 December 2020, The move is appreciated and welcomed by the IT industry.

This is the second extension of relaxations by DoT to facilitate WFH amid the coronavirus-led restrictions. DoT had first announced relaxation in WFH rules in April when India was under a strict lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 and later extended the date till 31 July.

India’s largest IT services company TCS said, only 1% of its workforce is currently working from the office. It had over 4.43 lakh employees for the quarter ended in June 2020. Of this, over 4,000 employees worked at its offices around the globe while the remaining continued to work from home. TCS said it would take up this number in a conservative way and would steadily increase this to 5 percent over the next quarter.

  • 95% of TCS employees are continuing to work from home
  • 93% of Infosys workforce working from home
  • 96% of HCL Tech employees are working from home
  • 93% of Wipro employees are currently working from home

C Vijayakumar, CEO of HCL Technologies says that the company has not faced any major outage due to work from home delivery. Employee productivity has gone up by 16-17%. Currently, 96% of HCL Tech employees are working from home and over 2.5% are working from client locations and from offices globally.

Tech Mahindra is another company that has stated that the productivity, creativity, and delivery is at ‘all-time-high’. It has confirmed that its 30% of employees to WFH permanently.

Infosys has announced permanent Work From Home for 33-50% employees. Currently, 93% of its taskforce working from home, only 2% of Infosys workforce has started working from the office in a phased manner.

The capacity to work remotely implies it is conceivable to use individuals and begin taking a gander at gig laborers later on. As of late, IT significant TCS had declared that 75% of its 4.48 lakh representatives, all-inclusive, will telecommute by 2025.

Wipro said, COVID-19 crisis has necessitated many changes in work design, the most significant being Work from Home (WFH), Wipro enabled WFH for over 93% of the workforce.

TCS believes around 75 per cent of its 4.5 lakh workforce to be WFH by 2025, Infosys expects around 33-50 per cent of its employees to provide services from home. Wipro is looking at a hybrid model, while HCL Technologies is of the opinion that approximately 50 per cent its staff to work in the office., media reports say.

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