Work From Home Ending In Many IT Giants?

Despite declining Covid-19 cases throughout the country, the government has asked all its employees to report to their offices.

According to a statement from the Union ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions, the rule have already been implemented.

India has recorded a lower number of Covid-19 cases so far, with daily infections remaining below the one lakh mark.

The personnel ministry said, “…Dr Jitendra Singh announced this evening that a review of the pandemic situation was done today and in view of the decline in the number of COVID cases as well as decline in positivity rate, it has been decided that full office attendance shall be resumed from tomorrow and employees at all levels, without an exemption, shall attend office on regular basis with effect from February 7, 2022,”.

However, the statement mentioned that the head of departments must ensure that employees wear face masks and follow the COVID guidelines even if they are not working from home.

These guidelines will be implemented till February 15, according to the ministry.

“This is in supersession of the earlier Circular according to which the 50 per cent office attendance rule had been extended till 15th of February. But, after obtaining inputs from the relevant quarters and review of the situation, a fresh OM (Office Memorandum) is issued by the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) informing that all the employees at all levels, without any exemption, will report to office. There will no longer be a “work from home” option for any employee,” the ministry said.

On the other hand, most of the IT companies, including TCS, HCL Technologies, Cognizant, and Infosys plan to monitor the emergence and impact of Covid variants before calling people back to work.