Coronavirus: IT firms ask clients abroad to allow staff to work from home

Currently, while many IT employees are working from home, a significant majority has to come to office as companies don't allow these staffers to work from home

Many information technology (IT) services firms have started negotiating with clients abroad to allow employees deployed on their projects in India to work-from-home (WFH), in the wake of the lockdown of the country to check the spread of Covid-19.
 

WFH for significant numbers of employees has never been part of delivery contracts. These do specify exit clauses with force majeure provisions but there is no clause to depend upon that can cover the current lockdown situation.
 

“Most of the top-tier firms are currently engaged with negotiation with clients in US and Europe to allow employees to work from remote locations.