Wipro staff gearing up for working from home
By
siliconindia news bureau
Chennai: The popular offshore concept 'Teleworking' seems to be catching up in the Indian scenario. Wipro, an IT engineering service provider, expects that 30 percent of its employees shall opt for working from home in the near future. This would mean a saving in the office resources, like office space, power and water which are spent during the office hours of an employee.
The company has been open to this system since a long time, whereby 1, 100 of its employees are teleworking in Bangalore while in Chennai it touches 100. The number is growing every quarter, according to Wipro's Chief Information Officer, Laxman K. Badiga. "It is all about employee convenience," he said. Those who have opted for this work from home system are also satisfied. Dilip Gore, a senior project manager at Wipro, who has been allowed to work from home due to some health ailments and he needs to go to office only once a week says, "Working from home saves me a lot of time that would otherwise be wasted in travelling," says Gore.
However, there are challenges in the implementation of this model, as the mindset of the employees is yet to be moulded to achieve better co-ordination and without any apprehension regarding the salary factor. Moreover, the effectiveness of the system has to be proved to the clients or the customers, to ensure permission from them for those working on customer projects as security-related issues are to be handled. However, a positive attitude is witnessed in the company's part, as Badiga said, "At present, there is a secured virtual private network. People working in service functions like administration, accounting and HR are allowed to work from home. The right technology should alienate customers' concern on security with regard to their projects."
A similar trend is witnessed in companies like Cognizant, IBM who have given the option of working from home to their employees. Persons from all departments, including the CEO, software professionals, marketing director, HR, sales and finance, are allowed to work from home. "Face-to-face is an important function. However, there is no job that needs it 24x7," says Harini Chittu, Vice-President (application services global delivery), IBM India. And Cognizant Technology Solutions company's Vice Chairman, Lakshmi Narayanan, recently told Business Line that the company would like to see 20 percent of its employees work from home over the next two years.
The company has been open to this system since a long time, whereby 1, 100 of its employees are teleworking in Bangalore while in Chennai it touches 100. The number is growing every quarter, according to Wipro's Chief Information Officer, Laxman K. Badiga. "It is all about employee convenience," he said. Those who have opted for this work from home system are also satisfied. Dilip Gore, a senior project manager at Wipro, who has been allowed to work from home due to some health ailments and he needs to go to office only once a week says, "Working from home saves me a lot of time that would otherwise be wasted in travelling," says Gore.
However, there are challenges in the implementation of this model, as the mindset of the employees is yet to be moulded to achieve better co-ordination and without any apprehension regarding the salary factor. Moreover, the effectiveness of the system has to be proved to the clients or the customers, to ensure permission from them for those working on customer projects as security-related issues are to be handled. However, a positive attitude is witnessed in the company's part, as Badiga said, "At present, there is a secured virtual private network. People working in service functions like administration, accounting and HR are allowed to work from home. The right technology should alienate customers' concern on security with regard to their projects."
A similar trend is witnessed in companies like Cognizant, IBM who have given the option of working from home to their employees. Persons from all departments, including the CEO, software professionals, marketing director, HR, sales and finance, are allowed to work from home. "Face-to-face is an important function. However, there is no job that needs it 24x7," says Harini Chittu, Vice-President (application services global delivery), IBM India. And Cognizant Technology Solutions company's Vice Chairman, Lakshmi Narayanan, recently told Business Line that the company would like to see 20 percent of its employees work from home over the next two years.
Reader's comments(23)
1: for what section of employees is this policy
applicable at Wipro. All i have seen is
stretched out working hours, guilt attached
in taking entitled leaves, work on weekends &
that too in office!!!!
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Posted by: Vishvapreet Padda - 12:00 AM Sep 10, ' 08
4: This is a really good thing that companier
are realising that there are many people who
can't continue working in offices and they
are being provided the facility to work from
home and show their talent.Specially for
women its a blessing.I have already worked
from home and now also I am looking for some
opening In HR where i can work from home.If
there are any openings in Wipro or some other
companies please contact me at my email
id.
Thanks
Vishavpreet Padda
Thanks
Vishavpreet Padda
Posted by: Vishavpreet Padda - 12:00 AM Sep 10, ' 08
5: Good to hear. Travelling to office is a pain
in all India cities due to crowded and
congested roads and heat/dust infested
atmosphere. It is a win-win for both the
employees and organizantions.
Posted by: Anamitra - 12:00 AM Sep 08, ' 08

6:iam interested to work from home so pls help
me regarding this matter and i basically from
andhra pradesh but due to my husband job iam
in kochi
Ch.Rani Eshwari replied to: Anamitra
post - 08:34 PM Jun 16, ' 09
post - 08:34 PM Jun 16, ' 09
7: This is good starting.Home based jobe is very
good,thinking.the profesnol had good
chance.This is batter other.This is healp
rorale dovelopmeant.some people very
intelegent.but they do not chance.This is
mathod of rising prosnelty other.
Thanks Vinit kumar
Lara Global (Accountant)
Thanks Vinit kumar
Lara Global (Accountant)
Posted by: vinit kumar - 12:00 AM Sep 06, ' 08
8: If we can plan this better and make this
happen, it would yield better productivity
and lot of advantages in terms of cutting
commutation related time, cost, fuel etc etc.
Posted by: Manjula - 12:00 AM Sep 05, ' 08
9: This is a good initiative from Wipro . This
would definitely help the woman empoyees to
strike a perfect work life balance.This
initiative is added bonus to physically
challenged individuals.
This would definitely save a lot of travelling time and reduce the stress for the employee while the organization can considerably reduce the operational cost. Its a win-win situation to both provided those given facility to work from home do not misuse the data / privileges. To ensure the data is safe, it would be better if the company gives the option to work from home for the employees worked atleast 3-4yrs in the same company. Wipro is growing to be employee friendly organization .
Anjali.K.T @ Linkedin
This would definitely save a lot of travelling time and reduce the stress for the employee while the organization can considerably reduce the operational cost. Its a win-win situation to both provided those given facility to work from home do not misuse the data / privileges. To ensure the data is safe, it would be better if the company gives the option to work from home for the employees worked atleast 3-4yrs in the same company. Wipro is growing to be employee friendly organization .
Anjali.K.T @ Linkedin
Posted by: Anjali K.T - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
10: its really good to work from home .In this we
can save lots of time in commuting and can
put more effort in our work.Pressure and
tension would be less and output will be
more.
Posted by: Ananth - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08

11:i like other people iam not expecting more
money just thousand per month is enough so
pls give correct information regarding this
Rani replied to: Ananth
post - 08:56 PM Jun 16, ' 09
post - 08:56 PM Jun 16, ' 09
13: Work from home (WFH) can be adopted by
research based firms too. The work that
involves secondary research or use of
analytics on information available on web.
This can further enhance competitiveness of
KPOs. VPNs can take care of security aspect
to an extent. Computer devices that are
provided to WFH employees have disabled USB
ports, CD/DVD roms, and no Administrator
rights.
Plus, you can take a 2 hour time out to visit bank and compensate for it during lunch.
Minus, you will never know when to end.
Plus, you can take a 2 hour time out to visit bank and compensate for it during lunch.
Minus, you will never know when to end.
Posted by: bharatgoyal - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
14: This is very good. But current enviroment of
the employee's at home is not very good like
internet performance,Electy. problem,Seprate
room at home and time Management etc. We are
doing the survey for software engineers can
work from home. We are doing the Registration
of the employees those are intersted to work
at home.
Anybody can intersted send me mail akl@aklindia.com
Thanks,
A.K.Saxena
for AKL OUTSOURCING PVT LTD;
Anybody can intersted send me mail akl@aklindia.com
Thanks,
A.K.Saxena
for AKL OUTSOURCING PVT LTD;
Posted by: A.K.Saxena - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
15: By this process, is the Client data and
investments are in safe hands? Can the client
trust the company and can the company trust
it's employee that they will not misuse the
clients info ?
Posted by: Praveen - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
16: its really a good news for the indian
employees , its a nice option for bothe co
and for the employees.
Posted by: sandeep - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
17: The article portrays the concept to be
promising. However it would be good to wait
and watch whether the corporates are really
concerned about employees or are cutting
costs at the office floors against the
economy slowdown. Ofcourse, both are
important, but its really a subject of
analysis of how it works out in Indian
scenario. Also employees working at home need
to make sure that their systems are secure.
Posted by: Yogendra - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
19: Yeah ..its really good to work from home .In
this we can save lots of time in commuting
and can put more effort in our work.Pressure
and tension would be less and output will be
more.
Posted by: Puja - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
20: wow wow wow so we can sleep at home in office
hours
Posted by: Tarun Chaturvedi - 12:00 AM Sep 04, ' 08
21: This is the best practice if for particular
projects there is no much security concern
and it can be implemented for testing
projects where much of the work can be done
sitting at your house very easily.It doesnt
have much security concerns even.
Posted by: srikanth.y - 12:00 AM Sep 03, ' 08
22: This is a really a blessing. Especially for
people who have to travel long distances and
leave young children behind.
Posted by: priya - 12:00 AM Sep 03, ' 08
23: This is a really a blessing. Especially for
people who have to travel long distances and
leave young children behind.
Posted by: priya - 12:00 AM Sep 03, ' 08
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