TCS completely removes work from home for employees

Tata Consultancy Services has asked all of its employees to return to office according to the need of their role, permanently removing remote working. TCS informed its employees to come back to offices three days a week or according to the roster set by their team supervisor.

An official mail read, “Senior leaders of TCS have been working from TCS offices for a while now and our customers are also visiting TCS offices. Your respective managers will now roster you to work from the TCS office for at least 3 days in a week. This will also be an opportunity to welcome a significant number of our new colleagues, who have joined us over the last two years, most of whom have not yet been in a TCS office.”

N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of TCS, said, “There is a greater realisation that by coming to offices, more things get done, especially for people who have joined us in the last two years. When they come and see the offices, they see a different perspective of TCS, they see a different perspective of their own position vis-a-vis their peers.”

However, looking at the rising scenario of Covid cases around the globe, the company will continue taking precautionary measures and will not make work from office mandatory.

The COO added, “We are giving flexibility to our employees. But our thinking is that we need to evolve this hybrid model of work, making sure that people do come to office, people do experience it. 100% working from home is kind of ruled out. We expect them to come to office more often and as often as required to experience offices and for their own benefit of learning and sharing.”