IT campuses will never be the same: How India’s 4 million IT workers shifted to working from home overnight

IT companies had to move desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes as they could not procure laptops in multiple thousands at such short notice. Alongside, there was the critical aspect of ensuring compliance and security. Despite all this, all of India's IT majors successfully executed this humongous shift.

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