Indian IT Companies Are Scrambling To Tackle The Covid-19 Situation In India
The giant IT firms of India in Bengaluru and several other cities have set up war rooms for covid-19 as they scramble hard to source medicine, oxygen, and hospital beds for infected workers and maintain all the backroom operations for the biggest financial firms of the world.
Banks like Standard Chartered and Goldman Sachs are running most of their global back-office operation from various large office parks in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. They have put in place the best infrastructures to vaccinate thousands of employees and also their families as the restrictions are lifted from 1st May.
Workers at Accenture, which is a huge technology service provider and Wipro has said that the teams are working hard for 13-14 hours daily and have been going under pressure. They are also struggling to deliver on projects as most of the staff fall sick and others have taken time off and have been taking care of the relatives and friends.
They have also played down any kind of a threat for the collapse in the operations. But they are also at stake as the surge is continuing. The infrastructure that is put in place by the biggest financial companies in the world regarding cost-cutting drives has left the companies very much reliant on the big Indian offices.
One of the employees at Accenture has said that since the second wave began, many employees have contracted Covid-19. This has caused severe pressure for all those projects that have been nearing the deadlines. The employee did not wish to be named as he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Five other sources from the same company have confirmed the growing issues that are related to work pressure. Accenture has also said that it is going to provide and cover the cost of vaccinations and medical care for its employees but it did not make any comment on the impact on productivity. Wipro did not respond to the requests for comment immediately.
The second wave of infections in India has seen at least 300,000 tests positive every day for the past week with overwhelming crematoriums and health care facilities and they have been driving an urgent international response increasingly.
Bengaluru, the IT capital of Asia is desperate to calm the daily infection rate more than five times higher than in the first wave last year. This Monday, Bengaluru ordered a complete lockdown that has allowed the ordinary residents to leave their respective homes only for a brief period between 6 am to 10 am in morning.
It is also said by the local IT managers that they have struggled hard to get the global chiefs outside India so that they recognize the seriousness of the outbreak.
The gigantic IT and call center service in India has employed more than 4.5 million people directly. The sector relies very much on a huge number of graduates under 30 years of age.
