Hardly 10% of employees have returned back to office, Report
According to WorkInSync and TOI report, only 10 percent of employees have returned to office till 30th November, in comparison to the levels in March this year.
In Mumbai and Delhi, 20 percent of employees have gone back to the office while the number is 5 percent for Bengaluru and Hyderabad, says TOI report.
Top IT companies such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro still have only 5 percent of their employees working from office.
10 percent of employees in metro cities have gone back to the office, while the number is 20 percent in the rest of the country, the report said.
The report also says that more women employees have made efforts to resume working from office, as against their male counterparts.
Employees in pharma, IT, ITeS, and BPO sectors are returning to office at a faster pace (27 percent and 16 percent respectively) than their counterparts in the software industry (3 percent), the report added.
“The index suggests that the return-to-office levels in the IT, ITeS, and BPO sector could recover to 50 percent of pre-COVID levels by May 2021, and as much as 80 percent by September.”, said, Deepesh Agarwal, CEO of WorkInSync
“This could be based on hopes of a vaccine against COVID-19.”Since the phase-2 of re-opening, there has been a consistent upward shift in the way employees have returned to work and that trend will pick up pace in the next few months,” Agarwal said,
