Infosys to allow employees to work from home or office from 2021
IT major, Infosys has said that it will explore a flexible hybrid work model for its employees starting from next year on account of the uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Infosys CEO and MD Salil Parekh, at a virtual conference, said the company has built a flexible model to provide work from home but it is now time to start working on building “social capital”. Going forward, the company will focus on putting in place a hybrid work model as it will depend on how the situation evolves, he said, adding that “the flexibility will remain critical.”, he added.
Krish Shankar, Executive Vice-President and Group Head of Human Resource Development, said it is likely in the future that most companies will continue with the hybrid kind of work model, but it will differ according to the nature of work.
He added that the flexible work model will give an opportunity to more women, especially those who are engaged in caregiving roles at home, to become part of the workforce.
Infosys, which has over 2 lakh employees in India, currently has only 2% people working from office while the remaining 98% are working from home.
Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder & Chairman, Infosys, said, “We had invested in working from home as a concept for all our employees long before the pandemic. When the pandemic struck, it was very easy for Infosys relatively, to transition its 2,40,000 employees in 40 countries to work from home.”
Nilekani added that the investment in technology, network and cybersecurity framework were the enabling factors to facilitate work from home.
The Government of India has already allowed IT and ITeS companies to work from anywhere. TCS has also announced that 75 per cent of the company’s permanent staff will work from home by 2025.
