Swine Flu: IT companies issue advisory

Taking precautionary steps against swine flu, Infosys Technologies has restricted both inbound and outbound travel from its development centre in Pune. On the other hand, Wipro is continuing with its general travel advisories.

Infosys said: “We have restricted all inbound and outbound travel at our development centre in Pune. We are continuing efforts to educate our employees, monitoring health bulletins and taking necessary precautions.” Infosys has 20,000 employees at its Pune development centre.

Both these IT majors have development centres across the country, with Pune being among the larger centres. According Wipro CIO Laxman Badiga: “We continue to provide required travel advisories .... We are communicating with our employees to exercise extreme caution and to avoid unnecessary travel. Our employees at the affected countries are reported to be safe and our business operations continue to function as normal.” Wipro has close to 9,000 people at the Pune centre.

Pune has seen the maximum attention from outbreak of HIN1 virus, especially with the first death being reported from the city.

At the first outbreak of the H1N1 in Mexico, IT majors like Infosys, Wipro and TCS had temporarily closed down their centres in Mexico for a week as a precautionary measure.