TCS planning a platform for internal gigs

CIOTechOutlook Team | Monday, 17 October 2022, 03:31 IST

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For its more than 600,000 employees, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is developing a platform for internal "gigs." The platform, which is still in its early phases, might later be expanded to include the outside labour force.

The move comes at a time when the $227-billion IT industry is grappling with the issue of moonlighting, or the taking up additional assignments by employees usually during non-work hours.

“We are starting a few proofs of concept (PoCs) on gig models but it is upon our own internal engagement and does not involve any customer engagements,” Milind Lakkad, chief human resource officer of TCS, told ET in an interview. “We have a set of activities which can be crowd-outsourced and can be given out to people who are interested. The reward mechanism (for the gig) doesn't have to be (monetary) compensation but definitely something that recognises people.”

India’s largest software services provider by revenue wants to evolve this into an internal gig-operating model for TCS.

“Eventually, for a scale like ours, I see a long-term model where we will use this for even the external workforce…,” Lakkad said.

Many IT companies have been setting up new models or leveraging previously set-up models to engage their employees on gig-based projects.

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