India’s second-largest IT services provider, Infosys is currently providing its employees with flexible work hours and work-from-home options in a hybrid work model.
However, now some of the clients are currently demanding work from the office. Infosys CEO and MD Salil Parekh responded to a shareholder’s query at the recent annual general meeting (AGM) of the company.
Infosys CEO and MD Salil Parekh said, “We have a flexible approach for employees. We are making sure that the employees have the ability to work from home or work hybrid.”
“In some cases where clients are requiring it. We have employees and teams that are working within the campus”, Salil Parekh added.
Salil Parekh further said, “On a long-term basis, we see a mix of where people will work, where there will be a need for increased social capital to connect with people to work with teams to do a new work.”
“There will be a need for more social capital wherein people will have to connect with each other to do new things, training, and much more in the future”, he added.
Recently, Infosys has ended Work from home and has asked its employees in the United States and Canada to return to the office.
Earlier in February, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy said that youngsters should also not insist on working from home.
Narayana Murthy said, “Anybody who has told you that work ethics are not important, hard work is not important and laziness is good, they are not your well-wishers.”
In November 2022, Infosys introduced a three-phase plan for employees in India to gradually return to the office. The company communicated with its employees by saying that it is going to adopt a ‘three-phase work from office plan’. The three phases include:-
- In its first phase plan, the company would allow employees to “come to the office twice a week based as per their convenience.”
- Followed by its second phase in which the employees would be allowed transfer or relocate to a branch office of their choice.
- Finally, Infosys in its final phase would involve the company drawing feedback from both the previous phases. So that the company can determine its hybrid work policy.
