HCL sees overall headcount dip slightly

HCL Technologies, which reported a healthy revenue growth of 3.2 per cent on US dollar terms sequentially for the third quarter, saw a dip of 791 employees in overall headcount, taking the total number of employees to 84,403.

The software services division saw a reduction of 1,638 employees while infrastructure services division reported a net addition of 638.

The fourth-largest information technology services firm in the country has constantly been talking about muted hiring, as the net addition in the previous quarter also stood a negative 395.
HCL Technologies has been in the news for deferred enrollment of over thousand fresh engineering graduates, who were given offer letter by the company in 2011 to join in 2012. They were not enrolled into the company till early 2013.

While the company did not share any details about its hiring plans, it is yet to announce the joining dates for over 6,000 graduates.

"We are talking to students directly. As the demand for IT services pick up we will continue to hire," said human resources head Prithvi Shergill. "Over the past few weeks, we have accelerated hiring in the infrastructure vertical. Industry structures are shifting. This is not an HCL only problem. There is a fundamental shift in the IT sector. We're realising that there's a shift in landscape."