India allows half of IT services workers back to the office next week The Indian government will allow IT operations to bring half their workforce back to the office as of Monday April 20th. A memo from the Ministry of Home Affairs [PDF] released today said that select businesses, including IT and IT-enabled services, would be allowed to open with 50 per cent of their workforce on April 20 "to …
"These limited exemptions will be operationalised by States/ [Union Territories] /district administrations..."
What the hell does that mean?
I expect the Yanks to take liberties with the language but surely India can do better than this. Though they did use a non-US spelling, so that's something I suppose.
On the topic itself for once it seems as if companies have a bit more regard for the safety of their employees than the government.
Perhaps a small correction is in order - You CONSIDER yourself fortunate. COUNT may be common usage but it is incorrect because it is illogical.
Boy, too bad I got out of the communication game - used to be fun to teach you firangis how to read, speak, and write English properly, because most of you sucked so bad. So most of you white boys claim to know one language, but the truth is, you know none well enough to be regarded as fluent. Meanwhile, in the rest of world, we are fluent in at least 3, and passable in another 2. So shove your racism where, as the americans say, the sun don't shine.
Unfortunately, one of the tests for English proficiency in India is IELTS. From what I have seen of it, IELTS is a crash course on American business jargon. It teaches idioms and cliches of the corporate American workplace. So it is not unusual to find this kind of butchered Americanism in certain Indian forums. My personal unfavorite is "prepone" as opposed to postpone, which I have often come across in customer service communications.
On the topic itself for once it seems as if companies have a bit more regard for the safety of their employees than the government.
Quite. When I invoked our divisions BCP plan, mandating everyone work from home including our offshore staff, we discovered a couple of things. One of which was that despite guarantees spanning decades that all offshore staff could work from home, it turns out the provider lied and only 1 in 5 has been able to connect from home.
While I inherited the BCP plan recently from another division, I should have tested it straight away rather than putting it in my Q2 plan as it turned out I needed it before we got there.
One of the supply chain changes we'll have to look at is something I've long advocated for anyway, which is a curtailment of offshoring of IT jobs. This should be front and center of everyone's supply chain revisions post Covid-19.
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