Think of evening attendance, car-pooling, Part time WFH: Stephen Raveendra suggest corporates

Hyderabad: Cyberabad police commissioner Stephen Raveendra and Ramesh Kaza, the secretary general of the Society For Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC), met with representatives of several IT and ITeS companies on Friday to discuss ways to streamline traffic in the region.

The meeting was held in response to the increasing traffic congestion in the IT Corridor. Raveendra said that the police are committed to working with the industry to find solutions that will reduce traffic and improve the quality of life for everyone who lives and works in the area.

Speaking at the interaction, Stephen Raveendra said, “Cyberabad Police is proactive in many ways and this is an important meeting. We would like to take inputs from the industry and arrive at steps which would pave the way to a situation where employees need to spend the least amount of time on the road – either to reach the office or home.”

Some of the suggestions from the industry representatives included staggered timings of log-ins and log-outs, even out employee attendance on all working days instead of too much load from Tuesday to Thursday, encouraging carpooling, letting customer-facing employees spend 40% of their time working from home etc.”

Stephen Raveendra thanked the industry representatives of Cap Gemini, Cognizant, TCS, HSBC, JP Morgan, Deloitte, ICICI Bank, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Virtusa, Hysea and other organisations who attended the meeting.

Ramesh Kaza, in his address, said, “SCSC has been playing a pivotal role in organising this kind of interactive sessions and requested the organisations to explore different methods such as cutting down the number of four-wheelers entering/leaving the IT Corridor, increasing carpooling, and early log-ins and log-outs.”

He also requested large IT parks to start working as a nodal point for providing transportation to reduce private vehicles.