Indian IT firms bring back over 2,000 stranded employees from US, Europe due to Covid-19

PUNE: Indian IT services firms are estimated to have brought back more than 2,000 employees and their families, stranded overseas on account of the Covid 19-induced travel bans.

Companies such as Tata Consultancy Services NSE 0.41 %, Tech Mahindra NSE 0.16 % and Wipro NSE 1.66 % have a significant employee base at client locations, primarily in the US, as well as the UK, Australia, Japan and Europe. Now, with most these countries imposing movement restrictions and work-from-home regimes since mid-March, several employees had been keen to return home, the companies said.

In some cases, the employee’s visa was about to lapse and the person would have to be brought anyway. Some people who had gone abroad for short-term assignments, too, got stranded as flights suddenly got cancelled.