Infosys has reportedly tightened its work-from-home (WFH) policy. The company is adding new conditions for employees to claim extra WFH days, a report claims. This move comes after rival software companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Wipro, tightened their WFH policies.According to a report by The Economic Times, the Bengaluru-based company has capped extra WFH days, or exceptions to working from office (WFO), at 5 days per quarter. The report claims that Infosys’ system will not allow anything beyond this except in cases of critical medical conditions of the employee or dependents, with employees required to back requests with supporting documents, including a doctor’s verification.Employees at job level 5 and below must work from the office for at least 10 days a month. The new cap applies to requests seeking more WFH days beyond the standard policy.
How Infosys employees came to know about the new WFH policy
As per the report, emails sent by an Infosys manager to employees explaining the policy stated that he noticed a substantial increase in requests for approval of additional WFH days. The mail asked team members to get pre-approval for any WFH request in the system, not on the email. The manager noted that employees must plan and raise requests well in advance to avoid last-minute issues.“If a request is not approved as per policy, there is very little that we, as managers, can do,” the emails noted. However, Infosys has yet to respond to an email seeking an official comment on the new policy.The report noted that sources who were briefed on the subject have clarified that the company offers up to 30 additional days of remote work to employees in critical medical situations.Meanwhile, Infosys said it was not planning any changes to its hybrid policy in its post-earnings press conference earlier this month. “We will remain flexible in the way we are today and the way that our employees are interacting with the company and with our clients,” CEO Salil Parekh said at the time.Infosys, the second-largest IT firm in the country, has more than 300,000 employees. While Infosys introduced a return-to-office policy on November 20, 2023, requiring employees to work at least 10 days per month from the office, the company began enforcing it only on March 10, 2025. Employees are required to stay in the office for a minimum of three hours.Apart from Infosys, rival Wipro has also tightened its work-from-office policy, which took effect on January 1. Wipro’s latest policy mandates employees to spend at least 6 hours in the office for 3 days a week, a shift from the earlier flexible hours, and reduces the number of remote workdays to 12 from 15 earlier. The revised policy comes at a time when the $283 billion IT sector is facing slower revenue growth, as artificial intelligence (AI) reduces reliance on people-based delivery models.India’s leading software exporter, TCS, also implemented a five-day work-from-office policy and linked employees’ variable pay to their attendance in the office in 2025. However, the policy allows two days of work-from-home per month if an employee has a health issue.Industry experts say the need for a better collaborative environment amid rapidly shifting project timelines has led tech companies to tighten their remote working policies.“As projects are not long-term anymore and companies need to be agile (in their manpower deployment), 2026 could be a year where many companies would want their employees back in the office full-time, at least on the days they are working from the office,” said Aditya Narayan Mishra, managing director at staffing services company CIEL HR told ET.
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