While announcing their earnings update for the quarter ended 30 June, 2021, Infosys, TCS and Wipro are now expecting their employees all over the world to return to offices, fully vaccinated, around the second half of 2021. Recently, Bengaluru-based Wipro is likely to bring employees slowly back to work from September as vaccination gains pace, depending on the pandemic and third wave, said Saurabh Govil, chief human resources officer, Wipro. The announcement comes in the backdrop that Wipro has vaccinated around 35,000 employees. Rival company, Infosys' COO U B Pravin Rao answered several questions including that of resuming work from office from more employees during press conference post Q1 results. He also hoped that over next six months, "we expect 20-30% of people to start coming to work from office."

Source: Mint July 17, 2021 12:33 UTC