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Infosys expects 35% of staff to work from home amid Covid-19 crisis

More than 90 per cent of staffers of most IT services firms are working from home. The companies are in no hurry to bring them back despite the relaxation in lockdown.

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Earlier, TCS had said the company could look at 75:25 work model where a whopping 75 per cent of its more than 440,000 employees globally would work from home by 2025. However, in the annual general meeting, Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran had termed it as ‘guesstimate’.

Debasis Mohapatra Bengaluru

2 min read Last Updated : Jun 19 2020 | 11:45 PM IST

As work from home (WFH) model becomes the norm due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Infosys, the country’s second-largest IT services firm, is looking at allowing at least a third of its workforce to work remotely over a period of time, according to a media report. The company, however, did not give any time frame for this.

“Once things are normal, over a period of time, probably 50 per cent of employees will come to office and the rest will work from home. Moving on, 66 per cent will be in office but 33 per cent will work permanently from home,” Richard

Topics : Coronavirus Lockdown Infosys Work from home Indian IT services firms Indian IT firms IT Industry Tata Consultancy Services TCS Tata sons chairman Chandrasekaran HCL Technologies

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