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Hybrid Work Model: TCS To Call Workforce Back To Offices Post-Pandemic

People need to meet people. It is a social necessity. So, there will be a shift towards moving people to work when the pandemic gets over, says Chandrasekaran, Chairman TCS.

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As 'hybrid work model' will be the new normal in future, India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will ask employees to come to work once the pandemic is over as social interactions are a social necessity, said Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran.

At present, 97 per cent of the company's staff have been working from their homes because of the pandemic, he said, admitting that a "hybrid" model where people work from homes and also from offices will be the new normal.

"I do want to make the point that people need to meet people. It is a social necessity. So, there will be a shift towards moving people to work when the pandemic gets over," Chandrasekaran, who also chairs TCS, said at the company's annual general meeting.

As a “significant number” of people will be working from home in the future, he said, adding, “the future of work will be somewhat hybrid where some people will work from home, sometimes people will come to the office. So, the hybrid will likely be the new normal.”

TCS has first spelt out its 25-by-25 strategy, which said that at any given point of time a fourth of its staff will be working from the offices by 2025.

Chandrasekaran said the company was quick to shift work to the new normal after the country was put under a lockdown and ensured that all the necessary work happened at the backend, including shifting computers and establishing security protocols.



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