IT and consulting giant, Accenture is encouraging employees to work from the office. It has instructed the Team Leaders and Managers to ensure their respective team members are working from their base locations by August 31, 2023.
This indicates that the company is beginning to prepare employees to work from the office which will be done in a calibrated and phased manner.
The company has reportedly asked employees to work on the following points:-
- Accenture has asked employees to return to their base locations and start working on collaborations and better connecting with team members.
- Team members are required to work on critical projects and do their best together to meet clients’ needs.
IT giants are cautious about their WFO policy
Now, IT giants are cautious about their WFO policy and want employees to work from office at least 3 days a week. Recently we have also seen a couple of statements by business leaders and changes in the appraisal system to make employees work from Office.
Recently IBM CEO Arvind Krishna warns employees, said return to office or lose career opportunities. Remote work can hurt the career prospects of employees, especially in managerial roles.
If you aspire to lead roles would face difficulties in getting promoted, especially to managerial positions, he added.
He said, “Remote work is more suitable for certain roles that require individual work. In the short term, you probably can be equally productive, but your career does suffer.”
“Moving from there to another role is probably less likely because nobody’s observing them in another context. It will be tougher. Not impossible, but probably a lot tougher”, he added.
In the Month of January 2023, Tata Consultancy Services, in a bid to call its employees back to the office changed its appraisal system. The tech giant has sent an email to managers and team leads in the company which read, “Goal – Return to office; Target – Average 3 days a week from the nearest TCS office. I request all the appraisers to assign the below RTO (Return To Office) goal immediately to all your team members.”
TCS said that almost 50% of employees are coming to the office thrice a week and that the company plans to take this number to 70-80%.
