Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Bangalore biz majors revise office hours
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Intellectual property stuck in Bangalore traffic could soon become a thing of the past. Tormented by slow moving traffic which rendered employees distressed and tired even before they stepped into office, Bangalore corporates have revised their office timings to beat the city's infamous bumper-to-bumper vehicular movement. Biotech major Biocon has advanced its office hours from October, with the clock ticking for them from 7.30 am to 4 pm. UK-based retail giant Tesco's Whitefield facility has re-scheduled its timings to 8.15am to 5.15pm from mid-December, software behemoth TCS to 8am-5pm from November, and Siemens to 7.15 am-4.30 pm. Prior to this revamp, all of these companies were sticking to the predictable 9.30 am to 5.30 pm schedule.
Chinese telecom vendor Huawei Technologies, interestingly, has pushed forward its office hours at its Airport Road facility by an hour with the timings now scheduled from 10.30am, a far cry from the peak-hour of 9.30am. Biocon's HR head Gautam Reddy told The Sunday Times of India that employees were spending more than three hours to commute to and fro from the office every day. "Being a research firm we want people to be as fresh as possible when they come in. Initially, there was some resistance as people found it too early. But now they are enjoying it as they are getting a lot of time at home in the evening," he said. "Now we have a bunch of content employees, who have time to catch up with friends or go to a pub."
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