TCS to hire around 6,000 people overseas in FY 12

TCS, the country's largest software maker, expects to hire 6,000 employees overseas, which is ten per cent of the total 60,000 people it plans to recruit this fiscal.

PTI | April 26, 2011



TCS, the country's largest software maker, today said it expects to hire 6,000 employees overseas, which is ten per cent of the total 60,000 people it plans to recruit this fiscal.

"The overseas hiring will be similar to the 10 per cent which we have done earlier," TCS Global HR Head Ajoyendra Mukherjee, told PTI.

He, however, added that the Tata Group company is yet to firm up a detailed plan on overseas hiring and will do so soon.

The announcement comes in the wake of outsourcing and the ensuing flight of jobs to cheap labour countries like India becoming a contentious issue in the developed world.

Mukherjee said the company has not yet faced a mandatory local employee composition requirement in any of the geographies it operates in.

"As of now there is no such hard and fast rule where a percentage or a number has been given...there are talks that are going on like the 50:50 rule in the US, but no regulation yet," he said.

TCS hires people overseas based on merit depending on the job requirements, such as knowledge of the local language which is essential for certain projects in Latin America, he said, adding that non-Indians constitute 6.95 per cent of the company's total employee strength of over 1.98 lakh.
 

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