Due to the Covid pandemic, many IT companies, which had allowed them to work from home for the past three years, have now made it a rule that their employees should come to work at least three days a week. This is becoming a problem for women employees and the number of women leaving the job (Attrition rate) is increasing recently in the city. IT and BT Minister Priyank Kharge made a tweet. According to some estimates, the number of women employees in IT companies who quit has been 30 to 40 percent since last December. The average number of female employees who leave the IT sector is currently 15 percent. The overall share of women working in the IT sector has decreased by 1 to 1.5 percent. This is an alarming development. This is not a good development that women are leaving the IT sector, said the minister. There can be many reasons why women leave work. After Covid women may find it difficult to come to office and handle work. The need for skills may be greater after their maternity leave. However, the study reveals the exact reason. Women leaving the workforce in this way can have an impact on the economy, as companies lose skilled female employees. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest IT services company, is witnessing a major attrition among its women workforce. Among women employees of TCS, 35.7 percent quit. In the company’s annual report, Milind Lakkad, the company’s chief human resources officer, said that a large number of women left the workforce in fiscal 2023, a setback to our efforts to promote gender diversity. He is confident that we will overcome this problem, he says that it is an unusual development that women employees are leaving their jobs in large numbers.
