Friday, September 5, 2008

Post by Pankaj Mishra @ IIM Lucknow

Hi,
Currently I am a PGP1 student at IIM Lucknow.In the past,I had worked in Infosys for nearly 3 years.In my view, benefits and services are the biggest motivators for any employee in the company to derive job satisfaction.We all tend to think on the way we get the hikes in the company and compare with our peers in the same or different company.But more than that ,it is the work culture and environment of the company that makes people to stay longer.
At Infosys, we used to have good gym facility,billiards,TT and swimming pool facility that used to draw chunks of people esp. new joinees .They act as good stress relievers and draw significant number of people to them.
I also remember the Infosys Mysore days,when we were given European style accomodation and all we could have ever thought of.Every new batch of joinees could be easily identified as groups roaming around the swimming pool or playing some game or the other.In a way it was a welcome relief to people out of the academics world and joining the rigours of professional life.So good were the after effects of these facilities that people tended to like Mysore and wanted to stay there for life.It was only after the trainings and city life of the place dawned that people started to take these facility for granted and were back to the real world.
As a company,Infosys has done a great job in fulfilling aspirations of nearly 1 lakh employees with a wonderful induction program and catering to all the employee needs within its facility.It has shown that inspite of tremendous work pressure and deadlines ,software engineers become a motivated lot and can do wonders for the organization.

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