Infosys brings back stranded employees, family from US

Infosys has brought back a little more than 200 people -- employees and their families --, some of them whose visas were expired and stranded in the United States in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown.

The Bengaluru-based software services exporter brought them back from San Francisco in a special chartered flight.The flight landed in Bengaluru on Monday morning

"COVID has impacted our lives in unimaginable ways. Some of the Infosys employees were stranded in the US because of their visa expiration. All international flights were suspended because of the pandemic," Sanjeev Bode, an Infosys senior executive wrote on his LinkedIn page.


Infosys came to their rescue. The company booked the first ever chartered flight exclusively for 200+ employees and families from US to India. At the time of writing the flight had landed safely in Bangalore, bringing an end to weeks of dilemma related to the uncertain situation, he wrote.

Infosys declined to comment.

Thousands of employees of Indian IT services companies such as Infosys, TCS, HCL Tech, Wipro and Tech Mahindra have been stranded since March after international flights were suspended following the virus outbreak.

Some of these employees faced hardships onsite as their projects were deferred or cancelled due to the pandemic-induced slowdown in business.

While most these technology professionals were allowed to work from home onsite, some employees had to report to client sites for critical projects during March and April.