Wishesh Magazine February 2020 Wishesh Magazine February 2020 | Page 54

IN BUSINESS Corporate Companies Roll Back Business With 54 OYO Over a year, OYO’s business is not doing well as corporates like L&t Infotech, TCS and Vodafone Idea have rolled back their business with OYO as there were issues on women’s safety and drawbacks in their services. It has been stated that 18% of OYO’s revenue would come from a corporate business. In addition to this, there were concerns with the team and hotel partners. One of the employees mentioned that OYO had not been doing well over a year and it was getting difficult for them to provide good service to all the corporate clients. When compared to 2018, the business went down in 2019. WWW.WISHESH.NET | FEBRUARY 2020 These issues first came up in Pune when L&T Infotech stepped back from OYO. One of the female employee’s safety was taken overlooked. There were a couple of emails sent from L&T Infotech to OYO, addressing their issue of their female employees feeling unsafe and they might not do business with OYO if it continued. They didn’t find OYO to be taking any responsibility to tackle the issue. Further, there was no response to any comments and Britannia had quality issues with OYO as well. TCS and Vodafone also decided not to continue business with OYO. One of OYO’s corporate members said that Vodafone’s business with OYO fell from 25 lakhs in October to 11 lakhs this month. One of the emails received by OYO