Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which employs over 5,00,000 people, has already announced its plans to call majority (around 70-80 percent) of employees to the office by the end of the year. 

As India's vaccination drive continues its upward trajectory and with coronavirus cases on the decline, the corporate world is gearing to bring back its employees to office desks. At present, about 5 per cent of the IT major's associates are working from offices.

As a preparation for coming back to office, TCS has requested employees to plan to get back to their deputed location (their base branch) by November 15. "The return to office will be a calibrated move taking employee safety to consideration."

TCS said in its statement reads: "Towards the end of CY'21, we will encourage our associates to return to offices, at least initially, before we switch to the '25/25' model. This will be done in a phased and flexible manner and will depend on respective team leaders and the requirements of each team or project. We are committed to the 25/25 model but before the transition to the model, we need to start by getting people back to office and gradually evolve to 25/25."  According to the company, the '25/25' model is an important design element and will take a couple of years to mature.

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