The Bengaluru-headquartered company will declare a few important weeks in every quarter as In-Person Collab Weeks. “All of us are required to be in office during these weeks,” according to an internal email sent to employees, reviewed by ET.
The In-Person Collab week comes in continuation to the guidance on return to office (RTO), the mail further stated while urging employees to embrace the change and plan their work in a hybrid mode. “I urge you all to start working from our office campuses for a minimum of 10 days in a month if not started already,” Gupta’s mail said.
As part of its hybrid work policy, in November last year, Infosys employees are required to work a minimum of 10 days in a month or 30 days in a quarter.
The company has also urged the employees working away from base locations to plan their return and be present at the base development centres during these weeks. The total number of employees to be part of the In-Person Collab Week could not be immediately ascertained.
An email seeking details on the new program, sent to Infosys did not elicit a response.
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While the email did not mention details on its implementation, sources told ET it is likely to be effective from this quarter itself. Starting April 1, Infosys will begin its new financial year 2024-25 with the first quarter ending on June 30.The email further adds that it would designate a minimum of six weeks in a quarter as In-Person Collab Weeks. “You can either plan to work for a couple of days from the office during these Collab Weeks or can choose to work for all the days,” AVP & global delivery head – IOT Vikas Gupta said in an email, reviewed by ET.
The employees have the choice to plan and comply with the 10-day work-from-office rule during the collab weeks. “You may review along with your managers in choosing the days and time in the week that works best for you and your projects,” the mail added.
So far, the 10-day work-from-office rule has had mixed response from employees, but the company has been stepping up efforts to see increased attendance at campuses. The email calling employees to be present for in Collab Weeks mentions that “systematic enhancements are also planned as the next steps in this regard” which, sources said, probably hints at some policy tweaks to achieve increased turnout in offices.
According to another source, the company wants to gather employees in the office for better ideation and collaboration through productive teamwork that can help sharpen offerings that can expand business further amid the ongoing pressure to delivery growth.
Infosys, India’s second largest software services provider, tweak its IOE (internet of everything) organizational structure for its delivery and consulting functions as it focuses to adopt generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in its offerings under Gupta’s leadership, ET had reported.
Infosys recently said it is working on over 90 Gen AI programs. Its most recent partnership was announced last week with German media company for business and financial news – Handelsblatt Media Group that will work with Infosys as its AI and digital innovation partner leveraging Infosys’ AI service platform Topaz.
The Salil Parekh led IT giant has already trained over one lakh employees in Gen AI areas. In the earnings conference call in January, Parekh said that while Gen AI is not a big revenue component yet, it is still becoming more and more important in all discussions.
Across the IoT business landscape, Infosys says it has engineering, domain, and IT expertise which allows us to coalesce physical and digital worlds to deliver end-to-end services including consulting, system integration, technology services, platforms and support.
In the latest communication, Infosys has said that these In-Person Collab Weeks are being introduced within all projects in the ENG-IoT to maximize “our collective impact as a team and enhance our connect and collaboration when in office.”
In the new structure, the company has consolidated its project lifecycle management (PLM), industrial IoT, fast moving economy of CPO, KBE (knowledge-based engineering) and smart places.
The developments also come at a time when the $250 billion IT industry, including Infosys, is witnessing a slowdown in business growth following weak global macroeconomic concerns which have tightened discretionary spending by its customers.
