Cognizant offers 25% ‘gratitude’ pay
CHENNAI: Cognizant Technology Solutions on Friday announced that it will pay a ‘gratitude’ allowance of 25% of basic pay to more than 1.35 lakh employees in India. This is being paid recognising their efforts at maintaining business continuity during the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s overall India head count is 2,03,700 as of December 2019 and nearly 1.35 lakh of them are in the rank up to ‘Associate’.
In the past few weeks the company has enabled a majority of its offshore delivery teams to work from home by provisioning new laptops and encrypting desktops and moving them to their homes, as well as by enabling the use of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), providing additional bandwidth connectivity and air cards — all with appropriate client permissions and security protocols.
In the past few weeks the company has enabled a majority of its offshore delivery teams to work from home by provisioning new laptops and encrypting desktops and moving them to their homes, as well as by enabling the use of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), providing additional bandwidth connectivity and air cards — all with appropriate client permissions and security protocols.