Infosys has recently inaugurated a state-of-the-art facility in Yelahanka, Bengaluru. This new office aims to encourage employees to work in a hybrid mode.
Earlier, Infosys also established offices in tier II cities like Visakhapatnam and Coimbatore. The new offices aim to encourage employees to work in a hybrid mode and provide them with greater flexibility while bringing them closer to their residences.
In a communication to employees, Infosys said: “We are excited to announce the launch of our new North Gate facility in north Bengaluru to further promote flexibility and encourage you to work in hybrid mode and closer to your home.”
Many companies are expanding their talent pool beyond the metro cities. On the hand, Accenture also launched new centers in Jaipur, Coimbatore, and Indore and has told employees that they could work from these cities at their convenience.
In cities like Bengaluru, commutation time during peak office hours is also a challenge, and therefore employees are hesitant to return to their offices.
Similarly, Persistent Systems also opens smaller offices to lure its employees back to office culture. The firm already has big facilities in various cities but to make it convenient for employees and reduce their travel time, Persistent Systems opens small offices in Pune and Bengaluru accommodating 200 employees.
This step is a remedy to reduce the reluctance of employees to join their offices back in big cities as the commutation hampers the work-life balance of employees.
Employees get stuck in heavy traffic in the conventional working structure and therefore they are not very willing to join back. Further, the Covid phase also embraced a sense of comfort in employees towards work-from-home and it is becoming challenging for organizations to break that inclination.
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.
