Wipro Limited

Wipro expanded a digital activity-monitoring tool called TimeScope to company-issued laptops and desktops across India in September 2026, after an initial deployment to roughly 5,000 employees in May 2026. The tool tracks login duration, active time on work applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Chrome, etc.), and idle periods, covering fixed-price, billable, support, and undeployed roles. Under an internal policy, a day with no device login, no approved leave, no office swipe record, and no logged client-site visit can trigger an automatic leave deduction, which employees must contest to reverse. Wipro said the tool does not track personal activity, keystrokes, or screen content, and attributed the rollout to client requests for productivity visibility and concerns about employees logging in remotely while on vacation. The move follows a similar monitoring rollout at rival TCS weeks earlier and reflects an industry-wide shift toward outcome-based billing.

An IT sector union (NITES) flagged that Wipro had delayed onboarding of more than 250 engineering graduates who had received offer letters, in some cases for over a year, leaving them unemployed without pay or clear start dates. India's central labour ministry referred the complaint to the Karnataka state labour department for investigation. The pattern echoes similar onboarding-delay complaints against other large Indian IT services firms.