Version 1: Infosys opens a 10,000 seat block in Hyderabad for over 13,000 staff

A new 1.1 million sq ft building at the Pocharam campus shows how hybrid work lets fewer desks serve more people, and where IT work is heading.

Picture a brand new office building with 10,000 desks. Now picture more than 13,000 people who will work from those desks. The numbers do not match, and that is the whole idea. On Friday, 30 October 2026, Infosys opened a new 1.1 million sq ft software block at the company's Pocharam campus in Hyderabad. The block adds 10,000 seats and can support over 13,000 employees under a hybrid working model.

Infosys is a Bengaluru-based IT major, Storyboard18 reports. Infosys writes and runs software for banks, shops and factories around the world. The new building is meant for AI, cloud and cybersecurity work, and that matters for young people hoping to start a tech career.

What exactly opened in Hyderabad?

The new building is called a software development block. Think of it as a giant office floor where engineers write, test and fix code for clients. According to the news agency UNI, the block was opened at the Pocharam Development Centre on Friday, 30 October.

Here are the key numbers, taken from the company's release as reported by Mint:

The new block covers 1.1 million square feet.
The block adds 10,000 seats.
It can support more than 13,000 employees, because not everyone comes in every day.
The campus is spread across 450 acres.
Before this, the campus had seven blocks with about 4.58 million sq ft of built-up space.
Now it has eight blocks and about 5.68 million sq ft in total.

The sum checks out: 4.58 million plus 1.1 million is 5.68 million sq ft. To get a feel for the size, one square foot is roughly a tile on a floor. This one block alone has about 1.1 million of them.

Before and after panels showing the Pocharam campus going from seven blocks and 4.58 million sq ft to eight blocks and 5.68 million sq ft — The Pocharam campus before and after the new block.

Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu and Infosys leaders, including Chief Financial Officer Jayesh Sanghrajka, attended the opening, as UNI reported.

Why 10,000 desks for 13,000 people?

The answer is one word: hybrid. In hybrid work, people split their week between the office and home. So on any given day, some staff are at their desks and some are working from their living rooms.

Think of a college hostel mess. If 300 students eat there, the mess does not need 300 chairs. Some eat early, some eat late, some skip a meal. A smaller hall can serve everyone. Office desks work the same way. With hybrid work, Infosys can house a larger workforce without needing every employee on campus at the same time, as Mint reported.

How often do Infosys staff come in? In 2025, the company told many of its engineers in an internal email that the company's hybrid model expects them to work from office for at least 10 days a month, or more if the work needs it. That rule, reported by Storyboard18 citing The Economic Times, covered team leaders, software engineers and consultants.

Two bars comparing 10,000 seats in the new block with more than 13,000 employees it can support — Hybrid work lets 10,000 seats serve more than 13,000 people.

What kind of work will happen here?

The Pocharam centre serves global clients in four big areas, according to the company's release as reported by Urban Acres: banking, financial services and insurance; retail; life sciences; and manufacturing. Life sciences simply means health and medicine companies, such as drug makers.

The new space is meant to grow the company's work in artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, cybersecurity and engineering. Cloud computing means renting computing power over the internet instead of keeping big machines in your own office, a bit like streaming a song instead of buying the CD. Cybersecurity means protecting computers and data from hackers.

Mr Sanghrajka said, as quoted by Mint:

"This facility enhances our capacity to scale operations, build specialised talent, and deliver complex transformation programs for global clients."

The building also uses radiant cooling, smart lighting, rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse and spaces that let in a lot of natural daylight, according to the company. Radiant cooling cools a room through chilled water pipes in the ceiling or floor, instead of blowing cold air like a regular AC.

Why is Infosys adding space now?

The company says the space will help meet growing demand for this kind of work. Its latest results, out on 23 October, give a picture of that demand. For July to September 2026, Infosys reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 7,823 crore, up 6.2% from a year earlier. Revenue rose 10.2% to Rs 49,244 crore. Consolidated means the numbers include all the group's companies together, not just the main one.

Infosys also won large deals worth $5.2 billion in that quarter, CEO Salil Parekh said. A deal is a long contract where a client agrees to pay Infosys to run or build its software for several years. One of these was a mega contract worth more than $2 billion over seven years.

A counter rising to 5.2 billion dollars, the value of large deals Infosys won in the July to September quarter — Large deals won by Infosys in July to September 2026.

AI is a growing slice of this work. Mr Parekh said AI revenue was 10.5% of the total and grew 29% compared with the previous quarter. The company added 4,000 employees during the quarter, as Mint reported.

The picture is not all rosy. Infosys lowered its revenue growth forecast for the year to 1% to 2% in constant currency, down from 1.5% to 3% earlier, and said the main reason was pricing pressure. Pricing pressure means clients are pushing to pay less for the same work, like a customer bargaining harder at a samosa stall.

Is this part of an older plan?

Yes. The Pocharam campus has been growing for years. Infosys began work on it in 2008, and by December 2015 the first phase, with 12,000 seats, was ready to open, Madhyamam reported at the time.

Earlier, Infosys announced a Rs 750 crore expansion of the Pocharam campus, with the first phase set to finish within two to three years and to house 10,000 employees at first, according to IT Voice. The same report said the campus already had over 35,000 people working there.

What does this mean for freshers and Hyderabad?

More seats means space for more people. Deputy Chief Minister Vikramarka said the expansion would create chances for young people to take part in technology-led growth, Urban Acres reported. Infosys has not shared a hiring schedule for the new block, so there is no fixed number of new roles yet.

For a fresher, the useful clue is the type of work. The company has named AI, cloud, cybersecurity and engineering as the focus of this space. Those are the areas of work this building is meant for.

For the city, thousands more people heading to one campus also means more demand for buses, homes to rent, tiffin services and chai stalls nearby. The company's announcement did not give details on transport or housing plans, Urban Acres noted.

Take a look inside

This video from a YouTube travel channel walks through the Infosys Pocharam campus. It was not made for this news, so it may not show the new block.

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Infosys opens a 10,000 seat block in Hyderabad for over 13,000 staff