In September, when India is doing record vaccination and a large portion of the population has been immunised, corporations are asking their employees to return to work.
On Sunday, Wipro Chairman Rishad Premji said that after 18 months of working from home due to the COVID-19 epidemic, his company's leaders would begin returning to work on Monday.
"Our executives at Wipro are returning to the workplace tomorrow, after an 18-month absence (twice a week). Everyone is completely vaccinated and ready to travel - securely and socially separated," Premji stated in a tweet.
He also showed a video of COVID-19-related safety measures taken at the Wipro office, including as temperature checks and QR code scans.
Over 80 per cent of staff at India's software behemoth would be called back to work from the office. According to the firm, over 90 per cent of its staff have been vaccinated. Even TCS's CEO provided enough indications regarding its aim to return its whole employees to the office.
The vast majority of the employees who will be summoned back to work will be wholly immunised. TCS may be charting a new path for other major IT businesses by bringing the workers back to the office. The firm employs more than 10 per cent of India's 4.6 million IT workers. TCS intends to ask 80-90 per cent of its employees to work from the office.
HCL Tech is following its competitors' footsteps; HCL Technologies Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Apparao V V said that currently, around 3% of employees in India are coming to work, while others continue to work from home.
Furthermore, the CHRO stated that HCL aims to vaccinate 100% of its staff in the current quarter. Currently, about 74% of its staff have been immunised.
Apple, like Nasscom and Naggaro, is preparing to build hybrid-style offices for employees beginning this month. The firm has said that its workers must work three days away from the workplace. Apple CEO Tim Cook first proposed the approach in June 2021.
Following in the footsteps of TCS, Infosys will resume its pre-pandemic way of operation. It intends to reopen its offices and return workers to work only from the office. The firm is safeguarding the safety of the 2.6 lakh employees it plans to summon while keeping the possibility of the pandemic's third wave in mind.
Following the second pandemic wave, the numbers have become more controlled and have reached their lowest point. Health experts have warned not to let your defences down since the next wave is unavoidable.
The firm stated that they had received requests from some clients to allow their team members to work from Infosys campuses. Furthermore, some employees have expressed a desire to return to the office and resume their work.