India's IT services sector wants workers back in offices – but not all the new hires

Indian IT Service giant Wipro has confirmed to The Register that it expects employees will return to its office for at least three days a week as of October 10. An email provided to The Register appearing to be sent from Wipro to its India-based employees this week states that its offices will be open all weekdays except …

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmmm

"Volume has to be through freshers, there is no other source of volume... as we start pumping in more freshers, send them for training, put them into the bench and then get them into production..."

I think that statement is a little bit wrong. More like

"Volume has to be through freshers, there is no other cheap source of volume... as we start pumping in more freshers, get them into production for training, and never put them onto the bench..."

It's been that way for quite some time to varying degrees.

[Pascal Monett]

"detailed how Infosys pushed back her employment by five months"

I had an offer in 2010 from a Swiss bank. They wanted to see me, but they said I had to live in Switzerland to be eligible for hire.

I live in France. At the time, my wife was a school teacher. I was supposed to uproot everything, get a house in the most expensive country in Europe, and then go through a hiring process without any guarantee of actually getting the job ?

You sign me a contract saying I will be hired when I am a Swiss resident, and I'm coming.

You leave me in doubt, you can go frack yourself. I'm not ruining my family's life on a hope.

[Dan 55]

Re: "detailed how Infosys pushed back her employment by five months"

Since you'd need a job offer to start residency in the first place, they either 1) wanted to offer the job just to Swiss people and living in Switzerland was as close they could legally get to saying that, or 2) were saying thanks but no thanks and messing you about because you can't just rock up and get residency and live in Switzerland without a job offer.

[boatsman]

Re: "detailed how Infosys pushed back her employment by five months"

thats forbidden by law in any EU country :

" just to Swiss people and living in Switzerland "

and switzerland has signed up to the EU laws concerning workers rights ( free movement, no discrimination etc )

[Coastal cutie]

Mess people around in the hiring process, they walk to a job elsewhere and tell others not to bother with you; mess them about when they work for you, they vote with their feet. Hardly rocket science that you then end up with a hiring and retention problem.

[Potemkine!]

we start pumping in more freshers, send them for training, put them into the bench and then get them into production

Are they talking about people, or about stuff?

Having worked with several people at the low side from Indian IT sharks outsourcing companies, I saw there IT knowledge are quite inexistent. Outside of their task they were 'instructed' to do, they know nil. I don't blame them, but their exploiters.

You've got what you pay for, so I'm not surprised. This is the direct consequence of the race to mediocrity imposed by beancounters.

== Bring us Dabbsy back! ==

[Denarius]

sounds familiar

anyone who worked in trenches of the turn of the millennium (recent one) knows this behaviour of bigger outsourcery companies manglement.

I note the collected wreckage is allegedly being sold again.