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<ul><li><keyword id="141968" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="HCL-Tech">HCL Tech</keyword> is encouraging its employees to come into the office for work, at least one day a week over the next three months. </li><li>By the end of December, they hope to achieve 20% workforce occupancy in their offices. </li><li>In an exclusive interview with Business Insider India, <keyword id="30331" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="HCL-Technologies">HCL Technologies</keyword> CHRO Apparao VV explains who can come back to work, precautionary measures, and whether or not the canteen will be open. </li></ul>COVID-19 may still be looming large but HCL Technologies believes it has the right tools in place to help its employees come back to offices — one day a week at a time. “We’re telling employees to come at least once in a week to start with, and probably by December, you can do one or two days in a week,” Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Apparao VV told Business Insider in an exclusive interview. The company is currently operating with around 5% to 6% of its staff in office. By December, they hope to bring the overall number up to 20%. Not everyone is being asked to come back to work HCL Tech may be looking to get its offices hustling with activity again, but they’re not asking everyone to come back to work. Employees who have children below the age of five, or parents older than 50 years old can continue to work from home. And employees who are older than 50 to 55 years are also exempt. Apparao explained that this plan will be implemented in phases. And, on no given day will any of the company's development centres exceed 20% capacity. Floor marshalls and pre-ordered meals In preparation for people returning to work, HCL Tech has removed chairs to ensure that at least 3 feet of distance is maintained. Common rooms are getting cleaned up, cabs are being arranged and even ‘floor marshalls’ have been designated to ensure enforcement of discipline. “We won’t be leaving anything to chance,” said Apparao. Even when it comes to eating food, employees have to log in the previous night, and share their preferences. Because of the pandemic, only vendors will provide the food. The options may be a little limited, but it’s a necessary precaution. HCL Tech is also looking to hire ‘<a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/careers/news/hcl-to-hire-more-jobs-and-increase-wages-over-next-three-months-9000-more-freshers-to-be-onboarded-by-march/articleshow/78696285.cms">significantly</a>’ over the next three months with the aim of onboarding another 9,000 freshers by the end of March. In October, the company started to dole out wage hikes as well. “Wage hikes were only deferred by one quarter from the company’s regular increment cycle,” said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/hcl-tech-beats-guidance-clocks-in-4-5-jump-in-revenue-during-second-quarter/articleshow/78693542.cms">CEO C Vijayakumar</a>, during the second-quarter earnings call. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/amazon-ai-executive-explains-three-things-every-business-needs-to-address-before-using-machine-learning/articleshow/78769249.cms">EXCLUSIVE: Amazon AI executive explains three things every business needs to address before using machine learning</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/kumar-mangalam-birla-says-cement-industry-is-recovering-and-analysts-find-evidence-of-it-outside-ultratech-too/articleshow/78791281.cms">EXCLUSIVE: Kumar Mangalam Birla says cement industry is recovering and analysts find evidence of it outside UltraTech too</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/luxury-icons-sabyasachi-and-oberoi-open-up-about-their-perfectionist-quirks-like-checking-the-color-of-egg-yolks-and-slashing-clothes-so-they-cant-hit-the-edit-table/articleshow/78771113.cms">Luxury icons Sabyasachi and Oberoi open up about their 'perfectionist quirks' like checking the colour of egg yolks and slashing clothes so they can’t hit the edit table</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidwilson1949/10908712106/in/photolist-hBY14d-5SjWGi-hADbuh-aitwF1-622YYM-9n9Gkr-bz1nrv-dxZiaS-dxTPYz-6owX75-6238vZ-622Zdp-5RwVpc-d58cKS-f3LABd-hBXPU4-6238sp-6238sR-6WNN4X-627daq-f49shi-bonf6x-5Vdr23-o8UqFK-5SjXr4-8ZJFkj-5RwUwZ-hBXZv9-627d9h-e1o7ue-5SpgAS-aiDD5X-dxTPUi-acDVEo-627cYS-6RSUxq-622YM8-26LwpR-ziEXSa-9mVY9m-acDWDN-eYzBbq-8TfkXM-hACZJZ-hBXQFe-8FtTE4-9myPsv-MjdZ1-5SbrqG-8rNPen">davidwilson1949/Flickr</a></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>A group of <a href="https://businessinsider.com/category/google">Google</a> contractors voted to unionize on Tuesday.</li><li>The group of analysts are not direct <a href="https://businessinsider.com/category/google">Google</a> employees, but rather <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/23/google-pittsburgh-union-roots-transform-tech-industry">contractors who work for HCL America</a>, an Indian outsourcing firm.</li><li>Union organizers hope the vote could spur other tech workers to pursue unionization across the US.</li><li><a href="https://businessinsider.com">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>A group of about 80 contracted Google employees voted to form a union Tuesday afternoon.The workers, based in Google's office in Pittsburgh, voted 49-24 in favor of joining the United Steelworkers Union, <a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/09/24/google-employees-join-united-steelworkers/">CBS Pittsburgh reported</a>. They will organize using the name Pittsburgh Association of Tech Professionals.The group of analysts are not direct Google employees, but rather <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/23/google-pittsburgh-union-roots-transform-tech-industry">contractors who work for HCL America</a>, an Indian outsourcing firm. However, they work primarily on Google projects and their workplace is Google's Pittsburgh office. Google has a "shadow" workforce of 135,000 contracted employees in addition to its 115,000 direct employees, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/11/google-tvc-full-time-employees-training-document">The Guardian</a>.HCL acknowledged the unionization vote and said in a <a href="https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/09/24/google-employees-join-united-steelworkers/">statement</a> that it would respect the workers' decision to join United Steelworkers. In a statement to Business Insider, a Google spokesperson characterized the union negotiations as an issue between HCL and its workers."We work with lots of partners, many of which have unionized workforces, and many of which don't. As with all our partners, whether HCL's employees unionize or not is between them and their employer. We'll continue to partner with HCL," the spokesperson said.Maria Somma, a United Steelworkers organizer, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/23/google-pittsburgh-union-roots-transform-tech-industry">told The Guardian</a> that the union hopes HCL's vote will inspire more tech workers across the industry to unionize."The HCL workers are the first group that's daring enough - understanding the precarity of their situation - to say we've got to take a step," she said in an interview with The Guardian. "That to me is unbelievably brave. You want to see working-class heroes in today's modern world, look at them."Workers seeking unionization have complained that Google does not offer paid sick leave and hasn't scaled wages to match inflation, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-24/google-contractors-vote-to-join-united-steelworkers-union-says">Bloomberg reported</a>.HCL reportedly attempted to discourage workers from unionizing in the weeks leading up to the voice, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwmnv/google-contractors-officially-vote-to-unionize">according to Motherboard</a>, which obtained emails sent by HCL deputy general manager of operations Jeremy Carlson."The Steelworkers are typically 'blue collar' workers, not workers in a tech industry like us," Carlson reportedly wrote in one email to staff. "Do you really think the Steelworkers understand our needs, our industry, our business, or even what you do on a daily basis? I don't." In 2014, 38 Microsoft contractors <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/microsoft-bug-testers-unionized-then-they-were-dismissed">voted to form a union</a> to negotiate with their temp agency, Lionbridge Technologies Inc. They were all fired by 2016, and ultimately reached a National Labor Relations Board settlement with Microsoft.HCL workers underscored the need for union representation in a <a href="https://www.usw.org/news/media-center/releases/2019/pittsburgh-association-of-technical-professionals-files-for-nlrb-representation-election">release</a> published by the United Steelworkers in August."Workers at HCL deserve far more than they have received in terms of compensation, transparency and consideration, and it has gone on like this for much too long," said HCL employee Renata Nelson said in the release.Get the latest Google stock price<a href="http://markets.businessinsider.com/stock/GOOG-Quote"> here.</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-apple-unveil-new-iphone-11-pro-max-camera-2019-9">Watch Apple unveil the new iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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<ul><li>HCL Technologies is rolling our wage increments starting October for junior employees and January next year for senior employees. </li><li>The company also plans to hire aggressively over the next six months at both lateral and fresher levels.</li><li>The Indian IT services behemoth hopes to achieve its target of adding 12,000 freshers to its roster this fiscal, by onboarding 9,000 in the second half.</li></ul>HCL Technologies is set to bring back wage hikes for its employees starting October and plans to hire ‘significantly’ over the next three months — and continue that momentum till March 2021. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="78693542" title="HCL Tech beats guidance — clocks-in 4.5% jump in revenue during second quarter" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> “We expect a large number of recruitments to happen before December,” said HCL’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Apparao VV. “It is much much more than the initial two quarters.” This includes both freshers and lateral hires. Increments have also started rolling out from October 1 for junior-level employees, and will be effective for senior-level employees starting January 1, 2021. “Wages hikes were only deferred by one quarter from the company’s regular increment cycle,” said CEO C Vijayakumar Apparao added that the increments will be in line with what was doled out last year. The average numbers last year were 6% at offshore and 2.5% onsite. HCL wants to hire 12,000 freshers this year By March 2021, <keyword id="141968" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="HCL-Tech">HCL Tech</keyword> plans to have a total of 12,000 freshers on board. This is a step up from last year when the company added around 8,100 freshers overall. In the second quarter, HCL Tech added an overall 2,798 employees to its roster between July and September, of which 1,578 were freshers. “This is lower than what we anticipated because of COVID-19 situation and the low availability of people,” said Apparao. In the first quarter, the number of freshers added was around 1,200. Many students in line with offer letters were not onboarded yet since their final exams were postponed during the lockdown. Nonetheless, it still means there’s still a deficit of around 9,000 freshers before HCL Tech can meet its target. Yesterday, the Forbes fourth annual list of the ‘Forbes best employers’ ranked HCL Tech as the 30th best employer globally in 2020. This puts it among the top multinationals headquartered in India for employees. Vijayakumar lauded the company’s employees for being one of the five primary factors that led to the IT services behemoth’s growth despite the impact of COVID-19.

HCL Tech to hire ‘significantly’ and bring back wage hikes over the next three months — 9,000 new freshers likely to be onboarded by March

<ul><li><keyword id="6357585" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="tata-consultancy-services">Tata Consultancy Services</keyword> (TCS), <keyword id="30331" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="HCL-Technologies">HCL Technologies</keyword>, and other Indian IT behemoths plan to onboard more freshers than lateral hires over the next six months. </li><li>With attrition rates at an all-time low, there is less need to replace the loss of workforce, explained HCL Technologies’ CHRO VV Apparao.</li><li>TCS is looking beyond India’s border and plans to hire another 10,000 employees in the US amid H-1B visa ban issues.</li></ul>Freshers have a better shot at getting hired at one of the big-wig Indian IT companies in the second half of the year than those looking for a job change. The churn of employees at Indian IT companies is settling down as the likes of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), <keyword id="6354512" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Infosys">Infosys</keyword>, HCL Technologies, <keyword id="10862" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Wipro">Wipro</keyword>, and Tech Mahindra are witnessing some of the lowest attrition rates that they’ve seen in a while. “A large amount of lateral hiring happens because of attrition replacement. If I’m losing 20 people, I have to hire 20 people. To that extent, lateral hiring will come down,” HCL Tech CHRO Apparao VV told Business Insider. The company’s attrition rate was 12.2% this quarter — the lowest it has been in at least the last two years. <div type="image" title="attrition rates it companies" msid="79014772" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Attrition rate at India&amp;#39;s IT companies over the last six quarters&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Indian IT companies are on the hunt for freshers HCL Tech plans to onboard another 9,000 freshers before March 31, bringing the total of new hires to 12,000 in the current fiscal year. But, it is yet to make up its mind about the coming year. “We have not yet finalised. We’re doing a bottom-up exercise where we ask each of the businesses, what is the growth they see. Part of it will be based on form booking and a part of it will be based on anticipation — past number. But it won’t be less than 10,000,” said Apparao. <div type="image" title="it companies headcount" msid="79014798" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Net loss of employees in Q1 compared to net addition in Q2&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Infosys, which already onboarded close to 16,000 freshers this year, is planning on recruiting another 15,000 for the next year. With attrition at an all-time low of 8.9%, India’s biggest IT firm TCS too has been focused on onboarding freshers since July. “We started onboarding freshers and increased our recruitment globally in Q2 in anticipation of the growth trajectory,” said TCS CHRO, Milind Lakkad, during the second-quarter earnings call. The company is looking to onboard 10,000 employees over the next year in the US amid the uncertainty around H-1B visa regulations. Over the last five years, TCS has hired around 21,500 employees in the country in its efforts to localise. Wipro, which recently saw a change in leadership with Thierry Delaporte at the helm, did not disclose any exact numbers but does have ‘robust’ hiring plans for the second half of the current fiscal. “Very robust hiring this quarter, both laterally and campuses. We continue to see the same momentum going forward,” said the company’s CHRO Saurabh Govil during the second-quarter earnings call. He added that given the company’s current growth momentum, hiring — laterally and via campuses — is an important part of managing that growth. This includes hiring across geographies, including India and in the new business areas, especially cloud and cybersecurity, where the demand lies. India’s IT sector is among the first to recover from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Hiring freshers, rather than laterally, allows companies to pick up talent that’s relatively cheaper. 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TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech, and others to see more freshers than lateral hires in the next six months

New Delhi, Mar 30 () HCL Technologies on Monday said it is not expecting any significant impact on business in March quarter on account of the coronavirus outbreak, and that booking during the period has largely been "on track" with significant part of closures happening in January. HCL Tech said it had invoked 'Business Continuity Plan' and 'Risk Management Framework' quite early to minimise the impact on its employees and clients, and added that its exposure to the more-impacted verticals is "not significant". "While the impact on this quarter's numbers is yet to be quantified, we don't expect it to be significant. Our exposure to the more impacted verticals are not significant. Booking during this quarter has largely been on track as significant part of closures happened in January," HCL Tech said in a statement on the likely impact on business. The company said its business model is a healthy mix of recurring product revenues, managed services and discretionary spend-led professional services, and that its exposure to verticals like Oil and Gas, Travel and Hospitality, High-End Retail is in single digit. "We recognise our investments in risk management systems and processes over the last several years are helping us to minimise the short-term impact and to be adequately prepared for the medium term, if it gets worse. "We are also confident our business model will help us to emerge stronger in the longer term as it has been built for resilience during tough times," it said. The company said 76 per cent of its India-based employees and 92 per cent of employees in other geographies are enabled to work from home, and that the company has not witnessed any outages or major disruption in operations with this newer format of delivery. HCL said it has a well-defined and structured pandemic policy in place that attaches highest importance to employee safety and health as well as client commitments. "We are actively engaged with our clients and have executed the client-specific and HCL internal operations-centric Business Continuity Plan that ensures continuity in delivering to our client and employee commitments," the statement said. The company is constantly reviewing the situation at hand with utmost priority and fully complying with all government advisories and recommendations. "Given the extended nature of this situation, we have looked at ensuring that we put in medium-term sustainable measures in place to ensure continuity of all our operations and client deliverables. We have been successful in achieving this as of today," the company said. It said that in some geographies, a limited set of employees are working from offices, wherever it is permissible by the government and local authorities. "It is noteworthy that we have not witnessed any outages or major disruption in operations with this newer format of work from home delivery," HCL Tech said. The company said it has been monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak since late January and had invoked its Business Continuity Plan and Risk Management Framework quite early to minimise the impact on its employees and clients. "The situation arising out of this outbreak and its rapid spread across the world is unprecedented and is extremely dynamic. The economic impact is visible with varying degrees of intensity across multiple countries where we operate," it said. MBI ANU

Don't see major impact on March quarter biz due to coronavirus: HCL Tech

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(Eds: Adding details) New Delhi, May 7 () IT services major HCL Technologies on Thursday posted 24.3 per cent jump in March quarter consolidated net profit at Rs 3,154 crore, and said there could be certain short-term challenges like clients deferring new projects and volume-based billing impact on account of COVID-19 pandemic. HCL Technologies, which had registered a consolidated net profit of Rs 2,550 crore in the January-March 2019 quarter as per Indian accounting norms (Ind-AS), refrained from offering a revenue growth outlook for FY'21 but expressed confidence of a strong performance in the near and long term. IT firms like Wipro and Infosys have also suspended their practice of offering revenue growth forecast, while Cognizant had retracted its annual outlook for 2020. HCL Tech's revenue grew 16.3 per cent to Rs 18,587 crore in the March 2020 quarter, from Rs 15,990 crore in the year-ago period. "... there is some volume-based billing impact, there is some deferral of discretionary spend, some new project decision making is slowing down and some price discounts and maybe payment term extensions. These are the type of issues we are seeing on the demand side," HCL Technologies President and CEO C Vijayakumar told reporters. He added that industries that have seen bigger impact of the COVID-19 pandemic include automobiles, aviation, entertainment, and non-grocery retail. "But there are several verticals where we see the impact is very low - financial services, telecom, and professional services. Also our portfolio has certain insulated industry segments like life sciences and technology services that are fairly insulated and we are seeing some robust demand there," he said. Vijayakumar said the company is seeing both kind of impacts - "pockets of good demand in weak verticals" and "weak demand in strong verticals" given HCL Tech's mixed portfolio mix. "... we do not see this pandemic influencing our multi-year engagements beyond the short term, our efforts of building strong relationship with our clients, most of them are fortune 500 or global 2000 brands, with very strong and sustainable business model gives us that confidence that in the long term they're intact but in the short term there could be some challenges," he explained. Shares of the company were trading at Rs 517.80, marginally lower than the previous close on BSE. "HCL Tech reported in-revenue growth, while EBIT margin and net profit have beaten our estimates. Constant currency revenue grew 0.8 per cent q-o-q/13.5 per cent y-o-y, in-line with our estimates, led by strong growth in technology and services vertical," Sanjeev Hota, Head of Research at Sharekhan by BNP Paribas, said. Vijayakumar said the company has frozen hiring in general but continues to hire for niche areas including digital, cloud cybersecurity and Internet of Things. It will also hire the 15,000 freshers to whom offer letters had been rolled out. However, no decision has been taken on wage hikes as the company follows the July cycle. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted businesses globally with many governments imposing lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus. This forced most companies, including IT services firms, to ask employees to work from home. In India, certain relaxations have been allowed to bring a section of people back at work while following strict safety and health protocols. "We believe this return needs to be very well-calibrated. We do not foresee more than 10 per cent of our employees coming into offices by the end of this quarter, and we will keep evaluating it and see how to react to the situation. And we are seeing significant increase in productivity in the work-from-home operating model," he said. Vijayakumar added that the company would re-evaluate to see if this arrangement will work out in a non-lockdown scenario, and if customers will agree to it. "How will the privacy and security aspects play out is something we have to see. So I think it's going to take some time to really determine what the long-term operating model will be, but directionally, I see in 12 to 18 months, 50 per cent of employees would work from home and 50 per cent will work from offices and this will be in some kind of rotation model," he said. For FY'20, HCL Tech's net profit increased 9.3 per cent to Rs 11,057 crore, while revenue grew about 17 per cent to Rs 70,676 crore from the previous financial year. Its revenue growth in constant currency was at 16.7 per cent - in line with its outlook for 16.5-17 per cent growth. In US GAAP terms, HCL Tech's consolidated net profit in March quarter grew 22.8 per cent to Rs 3,154 crore, while revenue rose 16.3 per cent to Rs 18,590 crore from the year-ago period. For FY'20, HCL Tech's consolidated net profit increased 9.3 per cent to Rs 11,062 crore, while revenue grew 17 per cent to Rs 70,678 crore from the previous financial year. "FY'20 has been a landmark year, where we witnessed our highest growth in recent years and an industry leading performance for the fourth consecutive year. "Our focused 'Mode 1-2-3 strategy' helped deliver an all-round growth across service lines, verticals and geographies and enabled us to deliver at the top end of our revenue guidance and exceed the top-end of our margin guidance for the year," Vijayakumar said. During the fiscal, HCL Tech signed 53 transformational deals. At the end of March 2020 quarter, HCL had 1,50,423 employees with the addition of 1,250 people in the fourth quarter. Its attrition (on last 12 month basis) was at 16.3 per cent. HCL Tech said of its total global employee base, presently 96 per cent are working from home and another 2.5 per cent are working from offices. The Board has proposed a final dividend of Rs 2 per share on double the number of shares post 1:1 bonus issue. SR DRRDRR

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<ul><li>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro plan to open up lateral hiring further in the next three months. </li><li>In April to June, the attrition rate — number of employees that continue with the company — have dipped for all four of them. </li><li>Although hiring will not be done to replace them immediately, aside from freshers who already have promises to come onboard, Indian IT companies will be hiring laterally to meet deal requirements.</li></ul>Every major Indian IT tech company decided to go slow on hiring or suspended hiring altogether at end of the last quarter in March. However, despite these assertions, they have continued to bring on lateral hires. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="77082427" title="Why TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech can expect better earnings this year ⁠— here’s what’s working for each one of them" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> <table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none; width: 468pt; table-layout: fixed;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Company </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Lateral hires </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">Infosys </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">5,000 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">HCL Tech </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">2,000 </td></tr></tbody></table>Source: Company earnings call One of the big reasons is attrition. Attrition rates present the speed at which employees are leaving the organisation. The lower the attrition rate, the fewer employees a company has been able to retain. <div type="image" title="Attrition rates" msid="77046033" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Attrition rates across TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech and Wipro for the last five quarters&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Lateral hiring continues driven by demand Any freshers on-boarded before the pandemic will continue to come through albeit at a slower rate with training facilities caught in the coronavirus pandemic lurch. Meanwhile, offering any new freshers to come on board isn’t a part of the plan. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="76995155" title="Infosys is still on the fence when it comes to making work from home a permanent change" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> Instead, the companies are looking at lateral hires to fill the gaps where skill is needed to fulfil current deals and projects. Even at Wipro’s chief human resources officer (CHRO) Saurabh Govil claims that lateral hiring never stopped at the company. “We will continue to hire in Q2 based on demand.” “The downward trend in attrition continues. Expected to continue in the next quarter as well,” said HCL Technologies chief human resources officer (CHRO) Apparao VV. “Attrition has significantly come down but we will not be hiring significant numbers for immediate replacement,” he added. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) didn’t hire in Q1FY21 but filled in over 4,500 positions by reskilling, cross-skilling and multiskilling the company’s existing employees. CEO Rajesh Gopinathan claims that learning intensity at the company has increased by nearly 25% between April to June. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="76887172" title="TCS to kickstart lateral hiring and bring back 5% of its employees to offices" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> The company is now revising its freeze on lateral hiring to meet the demand environment. “We decided to open up on the lateral hiring side and have started onboarding new associates into the TCS ecosystem,” said Gopinathan. Indian IT services companies — like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies — has been launching new initiatives for their staff. Infosys, for instance, increased the variable pay for their staffers in the first quarter of 2020-21. TCS, on the other hand, rejigged their learning module to promote employees already within the organisation. 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New Delhi, Mar 19 () IT company HCL Technologies on Thursday said one employee from its Noida office has tested positive for coronavirus. The employee is currently in an isolation ward, the company said in a statement, adding that all prescribed protocols of sanitisation and contact tracing have been done. "Unfortunately, one employee from our Noida office has been tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus while he was in self-isolation after his return from international travel and hence our office is following all government and heath advisory protocols," HCL Tech said. "The employee is currently in an isolation ward and all measures are being taken to provide best medical care to him and support to his family," it added. The company said it is constantly monitoring all information sources including WHO alerts, complying with all government advisories globally, and has instituted a series of actions to help employees take better care of themselves and their families and help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus. "All other employees are in good health and are being monitored continuously. We have invoked our COVID-19 Contingency Plan in all geographies which aims at maximising Work from Home to aid social distancing and also issued a travel advisory across the company, taking full precautionary measures and suspending all non-essential travel until further notice. "Our recently launched global helpline for Covid-19 provides 24X7 support to our employees," the company said. Asserting that staff and customer health is of utmost priority for the company, HCL Tech said as the virus is spreading rapidly globally, it is continuously monitoring the situation and taking all possible precautionary measures for the well-being and safety of employees and their families. "We understand that key to fighting this virus is the need for high awareness, action where necessary, and containment. Our sincerest wishes and prayers go to all of the families of those who have been affected by the outbreak of this pandemic," the statement added. MBI SR ABMABM

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