After a long gap of 18 months, the third-largest tech company in India, Wipro is all set to call back its employees to the offices. Wipro became the first IT firm to publicly announce the return of some of its senior employees to the office.
According to the reports, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji informed via Twitter- “After 18 long months, our leaders @Wipro are coming back to the office starting tomorrow (twice a week). All fully vaccinated, all ready to go – safely and socially distanced.”
He also shared a video about the COVID-19-related safety protocols, including temperature checks and QR code scans, that have been put in place at the Wipro office.
He also said that all of them are fully vaccinated and ready to join the office. Premji also shared a video showing how the company arranged COVID-19-related safety protocols and how well the company is ready to welcome its staff. From temperature checks to QR scans at multiple checkpoints on the Wipro office campus, the company said that employee safety has been ensured. However, in a separate statement, Wipro also informed that all other employees working from home will continue till October 31 this year.
Likewise, Tata Consultancy Services is planning to call back over 80 per cent of employees to start working from the office. The company stated that it has almost 90 per cent of its employees getting vaccinated. The majority of the workforce that will be called back to offices will be fully vaccinated. TCS could be setting a new course for other top IT firms by calling the workforce back to the offices. The company constitutes more than 10 per cent of India’s 4.6 million IT employees. TCS is planning to ask 80-90 per cent of its workforce to work from the office.
After TCS, Infosys is going to get back to the pre-pandemic mode of working is Infosys. It is planning to reopen its offices and getting the employees back to work from the office only. The company is ensuring the safety of the 2.6 lakh employees it is planning to call the office while keeping the threat of the third wave of the pandemic in mind. After the second wave of the pandemic, the numbers are bit controlled and have reached the lowest. The health experts have advised to not lower the guards as the next wave is inevitable.
The company said, “We have been getting requests from certain accounts to allow their team members to work from Infosys campuses. In addition, some of our employees have also been asking to come back and start working from the office, as a personal preference.”
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