What TCS, Wipro, Cognizant, Dell and Infosys are doing to make employees return to the office

The pandemic’s era of remote work flexibility is waning as tech companies implement various strategies to bring employees back to the office. This shift requires workers to adapt, potentially facing tough measures if they don’t comply. Here’s what some of the biggest IT companies in the country are doing to encourage employees return to office.

Cognizant

Cognizant is developing an app for managers to create work schedules and monitor in-office compliance.Their goal, as stated by CEO Ravi Kumar, is to ensure employees are “in the office with a purpose.” They also expect a minimum of three days a week in the office.

TCS

India’s largest IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has implemented a policy that links the amount of variable pay employees receive every quarter to their presence in office. TCS employees who work from office less than 60% of the time will not receive any variable pay. Those with an office attendance between 60-75% will receive 50% of the variable pay. Employees with 75-85% of physical attendance in office will be eligible for 75% of the variable pay. Only those with an office compliance level above 85% will receive full variable pay for the quarter.

Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies plans to use a color-coded badge system to track employee presence. Blue signifies consistent on-site work, while red indicates limited office time. Green and yellow fall in between.

Wipro

Among Indian IT giants, Wipro is taking a softer approach. The soaps to software company is focusing on fostering collaboration and engagement through in-office activities at its campuses. In a recent letter to employees, its chief human resources officer Saurabh Govil stated that local-level councils have been set up to “enhance associate participation, engagement, collaboration, and networking”. Govil informed employees that there would be more in-office activities to encourage people to work from Wipro campuses across India.

Infosys

India’s second biggest IT company Infosys allows employees from select departments to apply for up to 11 work-from-home days per month through their employee experience platform. Infosys’s employee experience platform, InfyMe, allows employees from select business units to apply for work-from-home for 11 days in a month. Last year, Infosys had asked select employees at the junior and mid-levels to return to office ten days a month starting Nov 20, deviating from some of its peers who are enforcing a five-day work wee