“As communicated by CEO and chief human resources officer (CHRO) in various townhalls, it is mandatory for all associates to attend office on all the working days (5 days per week if there are no holidays) starting 1 October 2023,” reads the official mail.

However, the corporate in its response to CNBC-TV18 stated, “As we are in the silent period at the moment, we will not be able to comment on your query.”

In its FY23 annual report, the corporate highlighted the significance of returning to the workplace. The report talked about that over half of the corporate’s workforce was employed after March 2020, and new workers profit from bodily interactions with senior colleagues and leaders to acculturate and be taught from their behaviors and methods of pondering.

“Without those interactions, employee engagement as well as acculturation got badly impacted. All these factors led us to gradually bring back people to our offices during the year,” firm stated in its FY23 annual report.

Notably, TCS allocates greater than half of its income to satisfy its wage invoice. In FY23, the corporate had spent as a lot 56.6 % of income as worker profit bills. TCS is the most important personal employer in India with a workforce of over six lakh (600,000) individuals as of March 2023, so this alteration in coverage might doubtlessly have an effect on numerous workers who will now be required to commute to the workplace.

Earlier, in May 2020 in the course of the first wave of the pandemic, TCS’s then CEO, Rajesh Gopinathan, had launched the “25×25 model,” which aimed to deliver again 25 % of the workforce to the workplace by the yr 2025.