- This is in line with its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Salil Parekh’s announcement in October that the company will continue its flexible approach in calling the employees back to the office
- Centre will offer solutions for lowering costs, productivity, and customer experience: Company
Bengaluru, NFAPost: Indian IT giant Infosys has announced a three-phase work-from-office plan in internal communication. This plan is in line with its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Salil Parekh’s announcement in October that the company will continue its flexible approach in calling the employees back to the office.
In the first phase, the employees will be allowed to go to the office twice a week at their convenience, according to a report by Times of India (TOI). In the second phase, the employees can take a transfer to a branch office of their choice.
In the third phase, the company will take the feedback from both phases and frame a hybrid-work policy.
“It will be exciting to see how our teams will explore their own return to office plans by creatively and pragmatically blending project and business imperatives along with collective working convenience,” Krish Shankar, HR head at Infosys, said, as quoted by TOI.
In October, Parekh said, “In our India offices, we have about 45,000 employees in the office at any given time, and this is huge given where we were a few months ago. We are finding that the approach taken so far has been well received.” He said that more people would be called to office gradually.
However, the company has been against moonlighting. The IT major has an internal platform, Accelerate, which allows employees to take on gig work for internal projects, which receives almost 4,000 applications every quarter.
In the last quarter, the company recorded an attrition rate of 27.1 per cent.
Infosys BPM opens AI, automation unit in Poland for global clients
Infosys BPM, the business process management arm of the Indian IT services firm has launched a unit for artificial intelligence (AI) and automation in Poland’s Lodz city to assist global clients.
The new unit, in collaboration with IBM, will use AI and automation to offer solutions for automation, lowering costs, productivity, and customer experience. The Center of AI and automation will deliver Infosys BPM’s solutions including Infosys Intelligent Document Processing, Infosys Interaction Analytics, Infosys Multilingual Conversational AI, and Infosys Accounts Payable on Cloud.
The unit will assist organisations to analyse workflows, designing AI-infused apps with low-code tooling, assigning tasks to bots, and tracking performance, the company said in a press release.
“IBM is focused on providing clients and valued partners such as Infosys the key capabilities needed to scale AI for business. As evidence of the importance of the IBM Ecosystem strategy, the newly opened Center of AI powered by IBM Watson in Lodz, Poland, will provide our joint clients significant support in building the digital economy, as well as new skills and expertise in the field of AI and hybrid cloud,” said Marcin Gajdzinski, country general manager, IBM Poland, and Baltics.
Infosys BPM and IBM for two years have collaborated to assist clients, identify new use cases, and build solutions.
“As organizations continue to transform their cloud environments, they will increasingly need to rely on a diverse ecosystem of partners and supporting technologies to unlock enhanced hyper-productivity, agility, and scale. This collaboration with IBM Watson, through end-to-end hybrid cloud offerings, robust AI capabilities, domain-specific use cases, and business functional contextualization, will enable organizations to better navigate the complexities of digital transformation, leading to enhanced business value,” said Kapil Jain, executive vice president and global head of sales and enterprise capability at Infosys BPM.
The Lodz will be an innovation powerhouse and enable enterprises to address complex business processes, the company said.
