Come to office or forget getting offs: HCLTech links leaves to office attendance

HCLTech is linking leaves of employees with their attendance in office, it was reported as India’s third-largest software exporter is aiming to push for three day work from office. This comes as companies seek to bring employees back to the campus after the Covid pandemic. At HCLTech, employees will have to be in office for three days a week and at least 12 days in a month or their leaves will be cut for each day they are absent, Moneycontrol reported citing people in the know.

Earlier, the company transitioned to a hybrid work model when earlier this year it asked employees to return to office three days a week. An employee told the outlet, “HR has started communicating this update to some teams from this week onwards over emails and this is already effective. Once our leaves are over, this could lead to loss of pay.”