Infosys has made another set of changes to its HR policy, in an effort to remain attractive to its employees, arrest attrition and drive productivity
The country’s second largest
software exporter has allowed its employees five extra days in a month,
to ‘work from home'. With this, employees can work 9 days in a month
from their home, compared to 4 in the past. Infosys HR sent an internal
email to all employees a few days ago.
Considering
the kind of hassle that employees go through commuting to and fro, often
travelling an average of 90 minutes one way, employees had asked the
company HR to be more flexible when it comes to its work out of home
policy. “This will also go a long way in enhancing employee productivity
as well as maintain a better work-life balance,” the note added.
Infosys
is taking these measures for a couple of reasons, opine industry
watchers. The first has to do with the fact that the bulk of the 1.8
lakh employees, in their twenties are very vocal about flexibility, in
the way they work. Secondly, efforts like these will go towards
curtailing attrition, which according to Sikka has been steadily coming
down since he took over. In October, Infosys appointed Krish Shankar, a
former Philips executive as its global HR head with a mandate to handle a
different kind of workforce.
Also, this development
comes six months after Sikka first announced the decision to do away
with the policy of casual wear only on Fridays. Instead, he advocated
employees to flaunt their business casuals all week. Similarly,
immediately after taking over, Sikka relaxed the company's long-held
rule that said employees needed to wear ties, after a number of
employees asked him to scrap this rule.
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