Global drug maker Dr Reddy's Laboratories is adding 1,300 people this year, including about 350 through campus recruitment, according to Prabir Kumar Jha, DRL's senior vice-president and global chief.
Speaking to the media in Hyderabad on Monday, he said about 300 of them had already joined and the rest would join in phases. In all, the company has about 11,000 employees, of which 12 per cent are women and 20 per cent work overseas. The attrition rate has come down to 12 per cent from the earlier 18 per cent, he added.
The new recruits would go through the mandatory reorientation programme before being put to regular work at the Leadership Academy at its Bachupally premises on the city's outskirts.
Jha said the company was also reworking its HR policies, which are aimed at enhancing employee productivity. It has introduced self-appraisals with a random audit, to ensure that employees do not take undue advantage of the system.
