The Hindu Business Line : IT cos may declare holiday today

The city's IT organisations began shutting down their offices as news of Kannada matinee idol Rajkumar's death began trickling in on Wednesday afternoon.

Spokespersons of a few IT companies told Business Line they planned to declare a holiday on Thursday as they expected violence in the city.

Most IT workers were sent home by dusk, but some stayed back "to get the work done," said an Infosys spokesperson. The company was yet to take a decision about declaring Thursday a holiday.

At Whitefield tech park ITPL, software engineers were e-mailed instructions to leave in the scheduled buses when the news of the demise was broadcast. Applied Materials instructed its employees not to carry their laptops home as a safety precaution. "This is a time when emotional mobs dictate the situation," said the company spokesperson. IBM employees were sent home early, and advised to take a call on attending work on Thursday. Motorola and SAP Labs also left the decision to their employees but have not declared a holiday.

In a quick reaction to the news of Rajkumar's death, the centrally located Aditi Technologies shut down and was vacated immediately.

At Wipro, an internal mail was circulated to the effect that Thursday would be a holiday, and work would be compensated on another day. Sources at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard said that the verdict on work on Thursday was yet to be announced.

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