Context :
Extract :
Ø India’s information technology sector is seeking revisions in
the country’s taxation
and labour
laws as over half the workforce in the $191 billion industry could begin to
deliver
services remotely as part of the changes
being wrought by the ongoing pandemic.
At a meeting with government officials earlier this month, IT industry leaders, who estimated that close to 50% of the country’s 4.3 million IT workers will soon work from home, were asked to detail the legislative changes required to facilitate this significant transition.
Ø The industry has also requested the government to make
permanent several recent concessions extended until July, including relaxation
of telecom regulations that allow back-office
companies to work from home and move equipment out from designated special
economic zones to facilitate remote working.
Ø India’s IT industry contributes 8% to the country’s gross
domestic product and has a 46% share in the country’s services
exports, the lobby said in February.
Ø The country’s software
exports stood at $147 billion in fiscal year 2020.
Ø Since the lockdown in March, India’s IT industry has moved
nearly 90% of its workforce to deliver
services from home
Ø The successful transition is now prompting large-scale
shifts in work models across the industry, with India’s largest IT services
firm Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) looking at 75% of its workforce working remotely
by 2025.
Ø CP Gurnani, CEO of Tech Mahindra, said that in the first
phase, the company may start “with 25% employees” working
from home. “Most organisations will break away from large campuses to
distributed centres. Work from home doesn’t mean work from home forever. There
will be a Friday meeting, etc. But instead of my campus being 10,000 people in
one place, it can be 500 people in a smaller town.”
Ø “If the government wants to fast
forward this from five years to say 2-3 years, it will have to quickly
enable a long-term policy regime for it,” he said { Nasscom’s Aggarwal }
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Dear
Friends,
Ø Mr. Amit Aggarwal- IT-ITeS Sector Skill Council, aaggarwal@nasscom.in
Ø Shri U B Pravin
Rao – COO , Infosys / Pravin.rao@infosys.com
Ø Shri Ashish
Aggarwal – Head Publicity , NASSCOM
/ ashish@gmail.com
Ø Shri C P Gurnani
– CEO , Tech Mahindra / cp.gurnani@techmahindra.com
Ø Shri Vijaykumar –
CEO , HCL Technologies / vijay@hcl.com
As
per above-mentioned news-report
,
“
Nasscom is reviewing labour laws
from WFH perspective and will submit a report next week.”
While preparing that report, I urge you to consider
the suggestions listed under the links
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
18 May
2020
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