Infosys has begun asking employees working from home to share details of their household electricity consumption, a move the company says is meant to improve how it measures the environmental impact of hybrid work and to strengthen its sustainability reporting.
According to reports that cited an internal email from Infosys Chief Financial Officer Jayesh Sanghrajka, the company has launched a work-from-home electricity usage survey and urged employees to spend a few minutes responding.
In the email, Sanghrajka wrote that as hybrid work becomes central to operations, the company’s environmental impact extends beyond campuses and into employees’ homes, because electricity used while working from home adds to Infosys’ greenhouse-gas footprint.
He said the company needs accurate current data on home energy use to update its reporting methodology and design more effective sustainability initiatives.
What Infosys is asking for?
The survey goes beyond a simple “share your bill” request. Reports say the questionnaire seeks granular inputs on electricity consumption and typical at-home usage patterns, covering appliances and equipment such as fans, air conditioners, heaters, and even the wattage of lights. It also asks whether employees use solar power at home, and invites respondents to share energy-saving ideas they may have tried.
The hybrid-work context
Infosys’ hybrid policy requires employees to be physically present in the office for at least 10 days a month, while they work remotely for most of the remaining time, according to the reports.
The company’s argument is that once a meaningful share of work shifts to homes, the emissions and energy footprint no longer sit only within corporate campuses. That’s why, in the CFO’s framing, the company wants better visibility into work-related home electricity use.
Why Infosys says it’s doing this?
Infosys has positioned the initiative as part of its long-running sustainability programme. Reports note the company has been running sustainability efforts for more than 15 years and is now re-checking assumptions used in earlier work-from-home emissions estimates.
This isn’t the first time Infosys has tried to quantify remote-work emissions. The company had earlier estimated and reported work-from-home emissions in 2020–21 through a survey-based approach that measured electricity used for lighting, fans, computers, air conditioning and related activities, the reports said.
Infosys’ sustainability claims cited in the reports
In the same internal communication trail cited by the reports, Infosys pointed to past progress on energy and climate targets, saying it achieved carbon neutrality ahead of global timelines, reduced per-capita energy consumption by 55% since 2008, and sourced about 77% of its electricity from renewable sources in the previous year.
As per reports, Infosys has its own renewable energy power plants with a total capacity of 60 MW, and had proposed a 50 MW solar park in Karnataka in 2014 as part of generating its own green power.
How employees and the internet are reacting
Employee reactions indicate that the survey is used by some staff as a ‘nudge’ toward awareness, encouraging people to be more attentive toward energy conservation and efficient ways of using electricity at home.
The request has ignited a storm of debate online, with some users calling it a progressive step in climate accountability, while others questioned optics around employees bearing higher home electricity costs during work-from-home and raised broader concerns about trust and transparency.
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