Return to office: TCS issues veiled warning

‘New employees missed out on mentorship, team building, collaboration’

- Jas Bardia

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) has warned employees that failing to return to office by March will affect their appraisals and performance reports, two executives privy to the development told Mint.

"While the company has not said it will fire employees (who don't return to office) or cut their salaries, it will impact our appraisals and performance reports," said a TCS executive with knowledge of the matter.

"We first got the intimation of working from the office at a town hall last year.

Gradually, HR passed on the message to delivery managers, who then intimated their teams. Each of us was also told about the development at our individual desks," said the executive, who added that the HR department had also sent emails to employees about this.

Employees across the board were told to work from office for three days a week in February last year, said the executive.

Now, the firm has decided to call employees to office for all five days.