Hyderabad: IT offices, facilities are fully geared up to welcome back employees to their workplaces, informs Satyanarayana Mathala, President of Telangana Facilities Management Council (TFMC).
TFMC is a 400 members strong professional body of facilities management professionals that supervises smooth functioning of 1500 plus IT Offices in and around the tri-cities of Cyberabad, Hyderabad, and Secunderabad in which nearly 6.5 lakh IT employees work, informed Satya.
The delegation of TFMC under his leadership consisted of TFMC office bearers called on Tuesday Dr. G Srinivas Rao, Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, Government of Telangana, and informed of their preparedness in welcoming back the IT employees into their offices. Though we are prepared, employees are not willing to come back to the office. To give them the confidence, TFMC appealed to the officer to consider Facilities Management professionals including 3rd party staff- Housekeeping, M&E, the security of IT facilities, who have been taking care of IT facilities as Covid Warriors and requested the Government to give them vaccines on a priority basis. This will give some kind of confidence for the employees to come back to offices they observed.
The officer assured all their cooperation in winning back the confidence of the IT workforce. Dr. G. Srinivas Rao assured them that he would join them in any initiative of TFMC taken up to win back the confidence of IT employees.
“We are working on a plan so that employees can come back to the office in a phased manner. Currently, just 7% to 12% of staff working in the major IT parks is attending to their offices. We would like to improve this number at least to 25%, said TMFC President Satyanarayana Mathala.
The employees though moving around freely in the city are not willing to join back in offices. We need to gain their confidence, observed a TFMC office bearer.
Many companies in different industries already called back their staff. Now that schools and colleges are also open, it is time for the IT staff to turn back to their offices, they observed.
IT companies are also making a cautious start to resume office for a section of their workforce as the country is back their offices said another office-bearer of TFMC
Coming back to the desk at the office would sound like a treat to many now, they added.
Though work from home is not affecting their productivity, prolonged work from home is also putting a bad impact on their relationships, while some are comfortable, most of them want to come back to offices. Every IT company is looking at every other company calling back to offices and but, they don’t want to be the first company to bell the cat. A beginning has to be made somewhere, the TFMC maintained.
Although the curbs are relaxed, some IT and technology companies are in no rush to bring employees back to offices as long as their productivity is ensured.
Some companies are also considering a rotation of teams that come into the office, several other firms are even letting employees decide if they feel at ease returning to work, informed Satyanarayana Mathala
