Employee activism is on the rise at Infosys, India's second-largest information technology services firm, which employs close to 114,000 in India and across the world.
The company's effort to tame the disgruntled employees, who were earlier venting their anger in public forums and some social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, by giving them a blogging platform on its intranet, seems to have back-fired.
So much so, the company's HR Head, Nandita Gurjar claims to be getting thousands of negative reactions to her blog postings in the company's intranet 'Sparsh'. This has forced her to set up a team of six to moderate the blogs and 'My voice', the dedicated website the company has developed to seek the opinion of employees on important policy matters. Infosys is understood to have changed some of its HR policy decisions, coming under severe attacks by the employees in these blogs and 'My voice'.
Read more on:-http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/apr/15/slide-show-1-infosys-employees-vent-anger-on-hr-issues-in-blogs.htm
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