COVID-19 Spike: IT Majors Get Ready to Vaccinate Staff; Infosys Partners with 130 Hospitals in India, In Talks with Suppliers | In the News

India’s second largest software firm Infosys has tied up with 130 hospitals and is in discussion with healthcare providers and vaccine suppliers to vaccinate its employees, a top executive told Moneycontrol.

All these are likely to affect the IT firms’ ability to deliver. Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, Everest Group, a research and advisory firm said, “From a service company perspective, it is clearly affecting their off-shore capacity to a varying degree. We have heard several instances where between 20 -30 percent of the Indian workforce is affected, either dealing with COVID-19 themselves or having to take care of close family who is dealing with the virus.”