I wonder weather NGO's can use these employees to create accessible software's
for VIP's or they can helps us to create scripts for some screen reading
software's.
Infosys tells 50 of top brass: work with non-profit for a year,
will pay you
half your salary
New Delhi:
In times of slowdown, Infosys Technologies Ltd, the country's second largest
software services company, has offered its top employees an option to work
with a non-profit organization for a year but continue to earn half their
income.
Asked if he was still hiring, Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys, told
Forbes that the company had launched a program where an employee can go and
work with a non-profit organisation for a year "...and we'll pay him half
the salary for the duration."
Mohandas Pai, a board member and Director, Human Resources and Education and
Research and Administration, told The Indian Express that the option was
available to 50 of its seniormost employees. "They come immediately after
the top deck," he said. Pai said the company has restricted the kind of
non-profit organisations employees can work with. "It has to be in the areas
of public health and education or in regulatory bodies and industry
associations," he said, adding that these organisations must be secular and
not have any religious affiliation.
This is the first year of the programme and seven Infosys employees have
opted for it.
Infosys has over 1 lakh employees in 50 offices spread across the world. "It
is good quality people and not money that such (non-profit) organisations
desperately need," Pai said. Adding that Infosys may look at expanding the
scope of the programme depending on the experience and response from
employees.
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