"Infosys exhorts employees to go on 1 year sabbatical, work for NGOs"
Last Saturday’s Business Standard carried this news on its front page. It says that Infosys has sent a memo to all its employees regarding this. Only the condition is that an employee should be on the company rolls at least for two years. It also says that employee who would opt for this would get 50% of his/her salary. This move is the part of Narayan Murthy's desire to give something back to the society, as company claims. This move by Infosys, which is India's second largest IT firm, will definitely encourage people to look at Corporate Social Responsibility with altogether different perspective.
However one should be cautious while welcoming this move as it coincides with the period where firms are finding it hard to maintain all its employee force and willingly shading employees who are incompetent. Being said this, even if this move by Infosys can be considered as cost cutting measure by the company up to certain extent, then also its a win-win situation for the company as well as for people who like being a part of social activity but who find it difficult to get time out of work load. This is also a new dimension given to NGO-Corporate partnership and who knows in future there can be actual collaboration between the two sectors.
I think we should definitely welcome this move and I hope in future more and more companies will encourage its employees to participate in social reforms. These are the people who can make change!
4 comments:
Damn convenient... as it is, humanities students' are finding it hard to get decent jobs. Now, they've to compete with these guys?!
Might as well just just stay unemployed and watch Mr. Social Responsibility and his minions take over this job sector too.
I understand your concern.. I just appreciate the effort they are taking.. and too be very frank it is just one of the ways to reduce human force (istead of laying off people and creating fuss about it, this is the nicest way)... and we will have to wait and watch what happens to those people who voluntarily.. whether they will be absorbed back or not we dont know yet coz in IT industry things wont be same for a year..
o'common, this is bullshit!! don;t we know tht this is just spread good word of mouth in the society and all.. it is a good initiative but unless and until all the CSR activities and accountable, however, newer dimensions are evolving but still as a management student it is crap...
however, as anthropologist, i say it is good at least ppl must realize we exist and are in need of money and job... so bingo!!!
oki and by the way wht and why is this word verification thing??
gaurav - there's no such thing as nice in laying off people. even if you send them off with a band and on a horse, you are still cutting jobs. while it may be 'nice' to point out to work-obsessed engineers that another world also exist, it creates other problems.
nupur - highly optimistic about anthro realization and the chain reaction :)
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