TCS Will No Longer Count Work From Office Employees; Will Hire 40,000 Freshers In 2024


Sheetal Bhalerao

Sheetal Bhalerao

Jul 15, 2024


Recently, India’s largest IT services exporter TCS top official said that the company has reached pre-pandemic levels on the percentage of employees working from offices.

TCS Will No Longer Count Work From Office Employees; Will Hire 40,000 Freshers In 2024

Reaching To Pre-Pandemic Levels

It seems to have taken longer than expected according to the Tata group company’s chief of human resources Milind Lakkad as the levels have been achieved after 18 months of ‘hard’ efforts.

He further added, “We actually have come to the point where we believe we are coming back to almost the same levels as we were in pre-pandemic times.”

Lakkad said that ‘it is kind of a business as usual’ for the company employing over 6 lakh people, adding TCS will not track this metric as much in the next couple of quarters. 

In its previous announcement the company said that the number of employees working from offices for five days a week is higher than the 70 percent without giving a figure.

Marginal Decline In Women Employee

As we know, the pandemic-induced lockdowns resulted in the entire IT industry’s staff delivering work from their homes.

It appears that the companies, who look at working from offices as more virtuous because of the team building, mentoring, culture deepening aspects, have struggled to get them back to workplaces post pandemic.

Besides this, the company reported a marginal decline in the number of women employees at 35.5% as of June this year.

According to Lakkad, this is not an aspect of concern for the company and added that it has a slew of policies and measures in place before the pandemic itself wherein it has been flexible as an organization to take care of employees’ needs. 

On the topic of closing the fiscal year 2024-25 by hiring 40,000 freshers, Lakkad declined to comment.

Similarly, he also declined to comment on closing the fiscal on a positive number on the net hiring front ‘last year saw a decline in staffage amid business volatilities.

While answering to a question on whether incidence of involuntary attrition has gone up as the company becomes more rigorous in assessing its employees, Lakkad answered that such an eventuality is not a core part of its HR strategy.

Adding, when a resource is hired, it is his responsibility to ensure that the talent is productive, it is only when there are skill mismatches over a period of time or productivity issues even after attempts are mounted to improve, that it resorts to involuntary attrition. 


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