'War rooms' and oxygen: India's IT companies scramble to handle COVID-19 surge

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War-rooms and oxygen: India's IT companies scramble to handle COVID-19 surge

Wipro said it has not seen any disruption to operations and has transferred some client projects to offices outside India.

India's second wave of infections has seen at least 300,000 people test positive each day for the past week, overwhelming healthcare facilities and crematoriums and driving an increasingly urgent international response. They are paid a fraction of Western salaries and had largely ridden out the COVID-19 pandemic working from home until the relaxing of restrictions in recent months spurred companies to call more employees back to the office.

Another large bank, Wells Fargo, said its employees in India would continue to work remotely till at least early September.

 

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