NEW DELHI - Software professional Harish Kulkarni, when asked by his employer in a June survey whether he wanted to return to working in the office or work from home (WFH), chose the latter.
So did nearly all his colleagues at the Bangalore-based company, which is seeking to bring its employees back to the office at least twice a week.
"Some people have accepted two days (at the office), but everyone likes the WFH option," said Mr Kulkarni.
As India has eased Covid-19 restrictions and life returns to the pre-pandemic routine, information technology firms have found that employees are reluctant to return to the office full-time.
Three in four employees in the IT sector refuse to be in the office for even one day a week, according to a recent survey conducted by CIEL HR, an India-based staffing agency that surveyed 40 IT firms and 900,000 employees in May for The Economic Times.
The survey also found that 10 per cent of new hires in the corporate sector are in permanent remote roles.
Recruiters said workers have become more used to WFH, and are unwilling to go back to long commutes.
"I don't want to waste half my life commuting in the traffic jams of Bangalore," said senior data analyst Krithika Sandhu, 32, who recently quit to take up another full-time remote role.
"The pandemic taught me the value of time. I want to be able to care for my elderly parents. I wanted to work full-time but also be more responsive to their needs," she added.
Discussions on job sites and professional websites LinkedIn, Naukri.com and Glassdoor showed that many professionals who had
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