Hyderabad: Nearly 40 per cent of IT professionals worked from home on Friday due to heavy rains, waterlogging points and potholes on roads in the city.
As per estimations of the Telangana government, about 112 big and medium IT companies exist in the IT corridor at Gachibowli and surrounding localities, where about 4 lakh IT professionals and 12 lakh supporting staff are employed.
As per the request made by the Telangana government and Nasscom, all big and medium IT companies allowed their employees to work from home.
IT Secretary Mr Jayesh Ranjan personally contacted the Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), HYSEA, TITA, Nasscom and few IT companies over the phone to explain the situation of roads in the city and urged them for allowing work from home on Thursday night.
Based on his request, Nasscom on Friday circulated a letter among IT companies on the matter.
Telangana IT Association founder president Mr Sundeep Kumar Makthala said due to the initiations taken by the government, all the IT companies have avoided Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and allowed employees to work from anywhere.
“The BCP system creates more burdens on other employees who attend offices. During Chennai floods and the recent agitations in Bangalore, IT companies adopted this system and burden was faced by techies across the country. The decision of IT companies in city on work from home lead to normality in productivity. Except staff from essential services like data analytics, cyber security, maintenance and security, 40 per cent of the techies have worked from home,” he said.
Educational institutions, including schools, junior, degree and PG colleges in GHMC limits, remained closed on Friday with the government declaring a two-day holiday. Even almost all CBSE and ICSE schools as well as Kendriya Vidyalaya schools did not function. However, Army Public School and Bhavan’s schools functioned as usual.
