Attention: This Tech Giant Has Issued Memos To Employees For Not Reporting To Office
India's IT major, Tata Consultancy Services, on a mission to integrate its workforce on the campus has sent out memorandum of warning to all its staff to mandatorily start reporting to office, 12 days in a month.
The COVID-19 Pandemic Era brought in an all new form of work culture for the employees with the ‘work from home’ canticle, sidelining the predominant office lifestyle.
However, the Post Pandemic Period also supposedly followed the same theme specially in the IT sector, even as workflow restrictions was petered out, and all roads did not lead back to office for the techies.
Marching to a different drummer, Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has triggered alarm bells amongst its employees to return to office or face the consequences of non-compliance.
In the eyebrow raising move, the second largest market capitalized Indian firm sent out memorandums over mail, highly alerting all its employees to mark their presence in the office at least 12 days in a month.
The startling memo commenced its no-nonsense command with a ‘You are warned’ dictum, and directed all employees to start reporting to work with immediate effect from their respective office locations, adhering to the assigned roaster.
Employees To Tread The Tightrope
The stern directive issued to the TCS employees urged them to abide by the latest policy or face disciplinary actions likely in the form of pay cuts and leave cuts to be borne by the offenders, setting the corporate grapevine abuzz.
Instead of completely withdrawing the work from home custom, TCS has sought an uncharted path of blending the ‘Work From Office’ with ‘Work From Home’.
Furthermore, if any of the employees is wanting to expand their work-from-home duration, they would first have to mandatory complete the 12-day office presence, and then can look forward to seek an extension beyond the prescribed limit.
That is to say, if any staff seeks to ‘work from home’ on a day which has been allotted for ‘work from office’, they would have to compensate for the difference either by reporting to office on any other functioning day of the month or by adjusting a day out of their ‘work from home’ days.
The approval in the same regard is to be sought by the employees five days prior, so that the roaster can be set accordingly.
The intriguing move leaves the TCS employees under the gun to juggle their work from home days across the remaining period of the month, apart from the 12-days according to the allotted schedule.
Why Office Life Is Being Railroaded?
TCS believes that the 12-day office attendance norm would revive the lost on-site interactions among its employees, and the company will be able to deliver optimal performance with its whole workforce integrated.
The last couple of years also witnessed the entry of many fresh faces into the company, and TCS want the newbies to experience the vibrant ecosystem of their office culture.
The Tata group-backed tech giant is quite enthusiastic to celebrate the return of all its employees to the campuses buzzing with energy, and want them all to actively participate in the TCS environment by collaborating, learning, growing and enjoying together.
This would also help the workforce to develop a stronger sense of belonging towards the organization, and in turn could escalate the productivity of the company.
TCS Workplace
TCS has been the first to introduce the hybrid work policy for its employees post the pandemic era, a quest which it had begun last October, giving off a roaster rule for all employees to comply to the three-day-a-week office mode.
N.R. Narayan Murthy founded Infosys simultaneously followed the same suit of asking employees to return to office, but did not make it compulsory.
Many of the associates had been following with the former new mandate and started their usual work from office, howbeit, this time, TCS is quite strict that all its staff adhere to the undertaking and show up in the respective campuses.
TCS has emerged as the best workplace in India in 2023, which is closely followed by Amazon and Morgan Stanley.
Amid all the hullaballoo of layoffs taking the rounds, TCS has backed out from the pursuit and instead has promised to give pay hikes to their employees, along with sufficient impactful hiring.
The IT behemoth had on boarded 44,000 highest-ever number of experienced professionals and fresher’s in the fiscal year of 2023.
TCS has registered a Year-on-Year growth of 14.8 per cent in Q4FY23 at Rs. 11,436 Crore consolidated net profit. Also, its revenue from operations has seen a rise of 17 per cent to Rs. 59,162 Crore, compared to Q4FY22 of Rs. 50,591 Crore.
As of 31 March 2023, the total headcount of TCS stood at 614,795, with Q4FY2023 witnessing the intake of 821 employees totaling the enrolment of FY23 to 22,600 employees on net basis.
Proofread & Published By Naveenika Chauhan
