Thursday, Apr 18, 2024 | Last Update : 02:40 PM IST

  India   All India  18 Mar 2020  Infosys to evacuate 10k trainees from Mysuru campus

Infosys to evacuate 10k trainees from Mysuru campus

THE ASIAN AGE. | CHANDRASEKHAR G
Published : Mar 18, 2020, 8:56 pm IST
Updated : Mar 18, 2020, 8:56 pm IST

KSRTC has set up five booking counters on campus

The Infosys global education centre will continue to conduct its education programmes online.
 The Infosys global education centre will continue to conduct its education programmes online.

Bengaluru: While most Information Technology (IT) companies in Bengaluru have switched to work-from-home to cope with the COVID-19 virus, Infosys has entirely evacuated 10,000 employees from its Training Institute of Infosys campus in Mysuru.

The company has advised trainees residing at its global education centre in

Mysore to go home as soon as possible. “We are facilitating the logistics and are ensuring that training continues via Lex, our digital learning and talent transformation platform,” an official communiqué released by the company said.

The state transporter, KSRTC has made arrangements for the evacuation. Five information centres and advance booking counters have been set up on campus to ship the employees out to different destinations in South India, the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru, and different railway stations.

On Wednesday, 20 buses were operated out of the campus to destinations like Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Kottayam, Coimbatore, Madurai, Mangaluru and BIAL.

Tags: infosys mysore, infosys mysore campus, evacuation, coronavirus
Location: India, Karnataka, Mysore