Even though the Central government has issued relaxations for IT companies to allow 50 per cent of their employees to work from office, the Hyderabad Information Technology companies are looking at a staggered approach. The companies initially are looking at allowing 5 per cent to 10 per cent of their mission critical employees to come to office and thereafter allow others to join office as and when the situation demands.
“Right now, IT and ITeS companies are asking for just staggered allowing of employees and the 50 per cent benchmark will come after two to three months. The government will be holding a Cabinet meeting on Sunday wherein we will also be issuing a notice on what the companies need to adopt. Meanwhile, representatives from the companies have informed that they were also not in favour of having 50 per cent of the workforce come to office,” said Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary, IT and Industries Department.