The largest IT business in India, Tata Consultancy services (TCS), is returning to the conventional office-based work style. The business announced a modification to its hybrid working strategy in a recent employee email that went out in the middle of this month. Instead of the previous arrangement when employees were only obliged to be in the office for three days a week, tcs is forcing its workforce to be present in the office for the full workweek, which consists of five days, beginning on october 1, 2023.

According to a formal email sent to tcs staff, which was quoted by the news outlet CNBC-TV18, "As communicated by CEO and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) in various townhalls, it is mandatory for all associates to attend office on all working days (5 days per week if there are no holidays) starting 1 october 2023."

The corporation emphasised the value of a return to office settings in the FY23 annual report. More than half of the company's personnel was employed after march 2020, according to the research, and new hires prefer face-to-face contacts with senior coworkers and executives since they promote cultural integration and provide them the chance to pick up knowledge by seeing how they behave and think.

With the aim of reintegrating 25% of the workforce into office space by the year 2025, then-CEO Rajesh Gopinathan introduced the "2525 model" in May 2020, during the pandemic's initial wave. tcs was one of the first IT businesses to reject the commonly used hybrid work philosophy that became popular following the Covid-19 epidemic. This change is a significant break from many who have supported the work-from-home policy and believed it to be the direction of employment.


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