Wipro had 82,122 employees as of March 31, 2008, which included 61,844 employees in IT services business and 20,278 employees in BPO business.
This represents a net addition of 2,290 employees comprised of 1,919 in the IT services business and 371 people in the BPO business for the quarter.
As a part of the strategy of building global delivery capabilities, Wipro opened a BPO center in Cebu, the Philippines and Wroclaw, Poland. The centre will deliver customer service support, technical support, HR services, financial & accounting and procurement services to customers.
During this quarter, Wipro won a large deal from a leading consumer electronics company in the US. It is a 5-year
engagement which includes application management services covering all applications of the enterprise.
In this quarter, Wipro was selected by NEC Electronics for rendering semiconductor design services and establish ing a dedicated engineering development centre.
The development centre will provide front -end and back-end design services and IP to NEC Electronics for application specific Integrated Circuits and microcontrollers in the digital consumer and automotive areas.
Image: Employees of India's third largest software exporter Wipro work in the central Network Operations Centre at the company offices in Bangalore | Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
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