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Zero Bench is AWS of Infosys, staff generated 40,000 ideas, says CEO Sikka

Since its launch in 2015, the Zero Bench programme has generated over 40,000 ideas

Vishal Sikka
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Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka addressing a press conference to announce the annual financial results of the company, at its headquarters in Bengaluru (Photo: PTI)

Ayan Pramanik Bengaluru
Zero Bench, a move by Infosys Chief Executive Vishal Sikka to get engineers on the bench to come up with ideas for problems, is helping the company engage them better and beginning to provide solutions to customers.

Infosys, India’s second largest software exporter, has around 8,500 workers on the bench — engineers who are in between projects and are not billed for customers. Since its  launch in 2015, the zero bench programme has generated over 40,000 ideas. “Zero Bench is our AWS and is our Uber,” said Sikka  delivering the keynote at the Infosys Confluence 2017, the flagship thought leadership