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CEO Ravi Kumar S. last week, news agency Reuters reported that the company tol all India associates that they are expected to be in the office an average of three days per week, or as defined by their team leader...
Cognizant said that work from office enables better collaboration and awareness of company culture but reportedly several workers lamented on social media about the resultant loss of flexibility and work-life balance...
Meanwhile, Cognizant will also launch a new hybrid-work scheduling app for India to help managers coordinate schedules and reserve space in the office for their teams, the memo showed...
A spokesperson told the news agency that the company believed the hybrid model "will define the future of work" and that it remained committed to further expanding into Tier-2 cities across India, where many of its associates live...
Indian IT companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro and HCLTech have also released their work from office policy..
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