New Delhi, March 15: Infosys on Tuesday called back all its employees based in Japan. Infosys has around 350 employees working in various projects in Japan.
Mohandas Pai, Director Human Resources, Infosys, said: "All employees will return back to India in the next 1-2 days."
However, Pai said all Infosys employees are safe in Japan. Infosys has an office in Tokyo and has several employees in Fukuoka and Nagoya cities. The company began its Japanese operations in 1996 and opened its office in Tokyo in 1997.
Infosys spokesperson on Monday said that local teams in these cities are making arrangements to support the employees' requirements.
"Some of them have returned, some are in the process of coming back," S. Gopalakrishnan told Reuters. "The revenue from Japan is very small and overall it will have a minimal impact on business."
A massive earthquake hit Japan followed by a devastating tsunami on March 11, leaving thousands of people dead or unaccounted for, as houses were swept away, ships were overturned, vehicles and several buildings, including a petrochemical plant, were set on fire.
The country is now facing a radiation scare with a hydrogen explosion occurring at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant .
Pai said that Japan will take atleast 1-2 years to come back to normal. According to the software industry body NASSCOM, Japan accounts for about two per cent of the IT-BPO industry revenues.
Rivals TCS and Wipro had yesterday said that all their employees were safe in Japan. iGate, which has an office in Yokohama and an overall employee base of over 100 in Japan said, "No one was injured and it was business as usual for all the employees in Japan."
Several embassies advised staff and citizens to leave affected areas, tourists cut short vacations and multinational companies either urged staff to leave or said they were considering plans to move outside Tokyo where low levels of radiation have been detected.
