Wipro has become the latest Indian IT company to implement a strict work-from-office policy, tying the employees’ work from home shifts to their leaves. As per a report, the Bengaluru-based tech major sent an email to its staff asking them to attend office at least three days in a week or risk losing the day’s leave.
The email, which was sent to employees on September 2, the management also asked the human resources team to disallow employee requests to work from home, as per a report by Mint.
“If there are any such approvals, please cancel such approvals with immediate effect, and suggest the teams to attend office three days a week minimum. The leaves should get deducted in system for any deviation from the above said WFO policy,” the company said in the mail.
“The management will cancel a day of leave for every day missed in office. Simply put, if an employee is not physically present in office for the required three days a week, then all three days would be counted as leaves,” a Wipro employee told the publication.
It has also been reported that these directives are only for certain projects, and do not apply to all employees.
The email, which was sent to employees on September 2, the management also asked the human resources team to disallow employee requests to work from home, as per a report by Mint.
“If there are any such approvals, please cancel such approvals with immediate effect, and suggest the teams to attend office three days a week minimum. The leaves should get deducted in system for any deviation from the above said WFO policy,” the company said in the mail.
“The management will cancel a day of leave for every day missed in office. Simply put, if an employee is not physically present in office for the required three days a week, then all three days would be counted as leaves,” a Wipro employee told the publication.
It has also been reported that these directives are only for certain projects, and do not apply to all employees.
TCS, LTIMindtree and others IT companies ask employees to return to office
Recently, LTIMindtree linked leaves to employee attendance. As per the Mumbai-based software services company’s work-from-office policy called Rhythm, employees who do not turn up in the office for four days when they were supposed to, they would lose a day’s leave.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has linked variable pay of its employees to office attendance. The company now requires employees to work from the office all five days of the week. Similarly,Infosys has asked its employees to work from office for at least three-days-week.