Most of the employees of leading IT services companies in India are looking out for more flexible job opportunities even as companies have started asking workers to return to office, reports The Economic Times, citing a survey by Ciel HR Services. About 88% of employees in top IT companies are ready to quit their current jobs and of these, 46%, mostly working mothers and caregivers, are looking for work from home (WFH) opportunities as their current employers want them to return to offices, while another 46% are willing to leave for better paying jobs.

The rest, approximately 8%, want to quit because they see their employer’s demand of return to work as restrictive, preventing them from pursuing other hobbies and passions with more time spent on commuting, etc. Officials at staffing firms Adecco and Xpheno said they expect employees to mostly toe the line as companies call them back to offices. “Threats of this nature might have had teeth a few months back in the candidate controlled job market,” said Anil Ethanur, cofounder at Xpheno. “But now, with fewer jobs chasing talent and more employers returning to hybrid or work from office (WFO), candidates have fewer choices for fulltime WFH.”