Infosys’, innovative, way, beating, Bangalore, traffic

Free power for farmers, compulsory education for kids and employment for adults - all these are populist schemes usually employed by the politicians. Did I forget 1 kg rice for 2 rupees? Infosys is employing its own populist schemes to save money and fuel. While politicians are doing it for power, Infosys is doing it for productivity.

Infosys with the help of Stanford University has designed a pilot study. It will reward employees with cash if they come early to work. Employees coming to work before 8 AM picks 1.5 credits. Employees coming at 8:30 AM pick 1 credit. Based on the credits accumulated for a week the reward can go up to 12000 per week. A total of 96000 rupees is on offer per week. As per the reports 13,500 employee reported on time and 700 employees were rewarded so far.

It is a win-win situation for the company and the employees. Company saves 20000 rupees per day in fuel costs and this is trickled down to the employees. An employee can make up to 12000 rupees per week for going to work early. That is some serious money.

This is a far better option than increasing the work timings like Accenture and HCL did.

The problem is, if every other company imitates this, then there will be traffic jams at 7:30 AM. I don’t think any other company has some serious cash as Infosys does.

You know what Microsoft did instead?

They enabled their buses with Desktop’s and Wifi’s. Google did the same thing.

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