{"id":1241581,"date":"2023-01-14T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/?p=1241581"},"modified":"2023-01-14T08:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T03:27:49","slug":"hiring-at-hcl-reduced-by-71-in-last-1-year-hires-only-2945-employees-fires-350-employees-in-last-90-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/hiring-at-hcl-reduced-by-71-in-last-1-year-hires-only-2945-employees-fires-350-employees-in-last-90-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring At HCL Reduced By 71% In Last 1 Year: Hires Only 2945 Employees, Fires 350 Employees In Last 90 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HCLTech, formerly HCL Technologies, added 2,945 employees in the third quarter ended December 31, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-design-17-1280x720-2-1-1-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Hiring At HCL Reduced By 71% In Last 1 Year: Hires Only 2945 Employees, Fires 350 Employees In Last 90 Days\" class=\"wp-image-1241589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-design-17-1280x720-2-1-1-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-design-17-1280x720-2-1-1-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-design-17-1280x720-2-1-1-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-design-17-1280x720-2-1-1-1.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reduced net addition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total headcount of the company at present stands at 222,270.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is lower than the previous quarter&#8217;s net addition of over 8,359 employees in Q2, but significantly lower than the 10,143 employees hired in the same quarter last fiscal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Attrition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attrition rate decreased significantly on a QoQ basis at 21.7 percent, down from 23.8 percent in Q2 on the last twelve months (LTM) basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This attrition figure excludes involuntary attrition and digital process operations but it is much higher than 19.8 percent in the same quarter last fiscal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It laid off 350 employees working on Microsoft&#8217;s news-related products during the second quarter after the project was not renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fresher hiring<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresher addition for the quarter came in at 5,892, which was lower than the 10,339 for Q2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CEO and MD C Vijayakumar had said that the company overall plans to add about 30,000 freshers this fiscal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It previously said that it intends to hire 45,000 new employees in FY23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also heavily outsourced employees from new frontier locations such as Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Romania, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rivals\u2019 performance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, rival Infosys added 1,627 employees, a significant decrease from the 10,032&nbsp; previous quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week TCS reported a decline of 2,197 in net new addition, for the first time in the past 10 quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TCS CEO &amp; MD Rajesh Gopinathan said that it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news\/business\/earnings\/hcltech-attrition-rate-declines-to-21-7-in-q3fy23-9855601.html\/amp?utm_campaign=fullarticle&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=inshorts\">strategised <\/a>the move to improve utilisation, having doubled intake in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deals HCL won<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said it won 17 large deals during the quarter &#8211; seven in the services segment and 10 in software. 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