MUMBAI: Software major TCS said it will hire
close to 15,000 people in the January-March quarter and with addition the
company will exceed its target of hiring 60,000 people for the 2011-12 fiscal.
"If you look at the gross, we have already done 51,000 and as far as this
quarter is concerned, we will do close to 15,000 more. So the 60,000 number will
go up," TCS Vice-President and Head (Global HR) Ajoy Mukherjee told reporters
here.
At the beginning of the year, TCS had said it
expected to hire about 60,000 people during FY 2012. The company has added
18,907 (gross) and 11,981 (net) employees during the October-December quarter,
taking its total headcount to 2,26,751 employees. In the previous quarter, TCS
added 20,349 people, which was the highest addition by the company in any
three-month period. The attrition rate during the third quarter fell to 12.8 per
cent, Mukherjee added.
TCS today reported an 18.26 per cent jump in consolidated net profit to Rs
2,802.77 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2011 as compared to a net
profit of Rs 2,301 crore in the year-ago period.