Staffers on the bench and trainees at Bangalore-based Sasken Communication Technologies will work for only three days a week and draw at least 60 per cent of their salary during the current (Jan-March) quarter.
The company, as of now, has stopped recruiting. Increasing cost pressures have forced the company to make benched staffers sit at home for two working days every week and cut up to 40 per cent of their salaries, affecting mostly their variable pay component.
The company has also applied the same rule for trainees recruited last year. A company spokesperson confirmed this development
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