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The Indian multinational information technology company, Infosys has ended Work from home and has asked its employees in the United States and Canada to return to the office.

According to the reports of TOI, Infosys will also issue a warning to employees regarding disciplinary measures if anyone fails to the new work office. 

The policy applies to the workforce of over 30,000 employees in the USA and Canada. The company has announced employees will be required to obtain special permission if they wish to work remotely.

However, The company said that the rule does not apply to employees in India as of now.

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.

IT giants are cautious about their WFO policy

Accenture is encouraging employees to work from the office. It has instructed the Team Leaders and Managers to ensure their respective team members are working from their base locations by August 31, 2023.

Now, IT giants are cautious about their WFO policy and want employees to work from office at least 3 days a week. Recently we have also seen a couple of statements by business leaders and changes in the appraisal system to make employees work from Office.

Recently IBM CEO Arvind Krishna warns employees, said return to office or lose career opportunities. Remote work can hurt the career prospects of employees, especially in managerial roles. 

If you aspire to lead roles would face difficulties in getting promoted, especially to managerial positions, he added.

He said, “Remote work is more suitable for certain roles that require individual work. In the short term, you probably can be equally productive, but your career does suffer.”

“Moving from there to another role is probably less likely because nobody’s observing them in another context. It will be tougher. Not impossible, but probably a lot tougher”, he added.

In the Month of January 2023, Tata Consultancy Services, in a bid to call its employees back to the office changed its appraisal system.

The tech giant has sent an email to managers and team leads in the company which read, “Goal – Return to office; Target – Average 3 days a week from the nearest TCS office. I request all the appraisers to assign the below RTO (Return To Office) goal immediately to all your team members.”

TCS said that almost 50% of employees are coming to the office thrice a week and that the company plans to take this number to 70-80%.

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