New Delhi: HCL Technologies expects to have around 70 per cent of its employees working at physical workplaces by the end of the current financial year, CEO C Vijayakumar said, adding that the IT services company will continue to have a hybrid model that adapts and adapts to needs. conforms. ,
At present, a gradual increase is being observed in the number of people coming to the offices of HCLTech, he said. It is pertinent to mention that flexi working options were implemented by the IT industry at the beginning of the pandemic.
As normalcy returns, many tech companies are stepping up efforts to bring employees back into offices, at least for a certain number of days a week, and in the past months workers have actually started to come back and into office cubicles. Has gone. captured more regularly.
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“We have a hybrid-first virtual operating model and it is need-based. We expect people to come to office three days a week and we have had modest success,” Vijayakumar told PTI. He added, “At least half of our people come to work three days a week, and that number is growing.”
He emphasized that the approach is going to be ‘need-based’. “I think it will be based on need… Many projects now expect our employees to be in offices at least some part of the week. So it will depend on need, maybe we’ll get to 70 — 75 per cent by the end of the year, not more than that,” he said.
The entire process will be “gradual” keeping in mind the ground reality. He said, “… because people have shifted to smaller towns, they are coming back… It’s all factored into it.” Asked whether employees are unwilling to give up the flexibility they have gained during the pandemic, and whether employers are facing resistance in getting employees back on the office floor, Vijayakumar termed it a “mixed bag”. described.
“There are people who are very eager to get back to work in offices and there are people who do not want to do so,” he said. He explained that many factors like personal situation, personal preference and comfort zone play a role.
“I wouldn’t say it’s based on a generation gap or anything like that. I think we have people on both sides in different generations of our workforce. So, I think it’s their personal situation, personal preference.” And they have more of their own comfort zone, which defines it,” said the top HCLtech boss.