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

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