TCS announces work from home permanently for 75% of its workforce by 2025 | Check details

In recent news, Indian corporate giant TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has planned to ensure a 25/25 model for its future employees. aim of this new model is to occupy much less office space and employ a “Secure Borderless Work Spaces” way of operation. Know more about TCS decision that will ensure that 75% of its employees work from home permanently by 2025.

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TCS employees to work from home permanently?

TCS is India’s largest IT service that has decided to discard its 20-year-old operational model and improvise to a new one. Amidst Coronavirus outbreak and nationwide lockdown, TCS has decided that it will ask its 4.48 lakh employees from India and abro to take up work from home permanently. Currently, software industry has an average of 20% of its employees working from home as of today.

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TCS's new 25/25 model

25/25 model will ensure that minimal office space is required for work purpose. company has decided that it will not use more than 25% of workforce in actual office space. It said that it can manage all facilities to be 100% productive even when y have only 25% of manpower working from office, while rest 75% could work from home.

TCS chief operating officer NG Subramaniam mentioned that each employee would spend only 25% of ir working time in office while rest would complete from ir home. During team projects, only 75% of team can work staying at one location while rest would be dispersed to various locations as needed.

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What is TCS’s 'Secure Borderless Work Spaces' operational model?

After TCS was able to move 90% of its employees into this SBWS operational model post lockdown in country, it was seen that SBWS h become a strong platform for employees while y worked from home. TCS CEO and MD Rajesh Gopinathan sent a letter to TCS employees citing that re h been 35,000 meetings, 406000 calls, and 340 lakh messages across company through digital collaboration platform called SBWS.

letter furr stated that SBWS managed cybersecurity at  prime level, ensured appropriate project management practices to ensure that re was no compromise in project quality. 

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