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Despite higher gross additions, growth in overall customer base has been tepid for these companies, says Debasis Mohapatra.
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Infosys, Wipro may follow suit as investors eye a piece of the large cash kitty as growth slows.
According to Nasscom, engineering services exports had grown at 13 per cent in 2017 compared to six per cent rise in IT services exports and eight per cent in business process management (BPM). It had also recorded the highest growth in the last three years, reports Debasis Mohapatra.
The record in net addition from the top four was in 2016-17, of 59,427 employees.
Cascading effect of rising raw materials will result in inflation, high rates, slow capex
At times of slow growth, India has seen number of graduates doubling since 2008 to almost 25 million in 2016
The thrust, they feel, remains on design thinking, AI and digital besides enhanced focus on investing in selling and marketing efforts, expanding local talent base and re-skilling staff
Infosys chief Vishal Sikka took home an annual salary package of $7.45 million (about Rs 48.73 crore) for the 2015-16 financial year.
Indian IT companies have been under pressure to return excess cash on their books to shareholders through generous dividends and buybacks
The company is looking at building the 'bench' of employees in reserve, to be prepared for emerging demands, beside keeping staff attrition in control. Maintaining decent bench strength would help in implementing new projects.
The company's decision comes when there has been a dip in intake due to tepid demand, increasing automation, reports Debashis Mohapatra.
The company seeks floor area ratio of 3, against the permitted 2, from Uttar Pradesh.
With Democrats having an upper hand in US Congress, the Donald Trump administration will find it difficult to come up with any future legislative changes with regard to visa regulations.
This year, campuses placed most number of students in the first phase compared to past few years.
The proposed annual quota for Indian companies could be between 10 and 15 per cent. Currently, there are no country-specific limits on H-1B allotment.
The board expansion comes against the backdrop of an ongoing tussle between the founders and the management over contentious issues such as CEO salary hike, severance package to former employees and corporate governance standards.
Stronger rupee likely to take a toll; Infosys results on April 13 to be keenly watched
Fourth quarter earnings of blue-chips such as Infosys, TCS, Wipro, RIL and inflation data for March will dictate the trend on the bourses in a holiday-shortened week ahead, experts said.
Most large companies have curbed their hiring plans in 2018-19 because they continue to invest in digital technologies.
The proposed campus will come up on around 125 acres, which the company will acquire from airport authorities, and would house as many as 3,000 employees.
India's cash-rich promoters are not the same as the wealthiest. For example, Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian based on his stake in Reliance Industries, followed by Premji, the Adani family of the Adani group, and Radhakishan Damani of Avenue Supermarts.
As the government faces a difficult choice in keeping up with the rest of the world in AI development while making sure it does not add to unemployment, it has set up a task force to draw up a policy for the accelerated deployment of AI
Leveraging next generation technologies like artificial intelligence, software services major Infosys is confident of returning to industry-leading growth and regaining its position as the bellwether of the over $100 billion Indian IT industry.
Infosys, in April, had said that it will pay up to Rs 13,000 crore to shareholders during the current financial year through dividend and/or share buyback.
Tata Consultancy Services scrip ended the day 4.27 per cent higher at Rs 2,214.65 apiece on the BSE.
'It is not that the H1B visa employees are coming in to displace jobs.'
Revenues, profit margins will be hit in the next one year, but more demand in the longer run.
BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap indices hit their fresh lifetime highs for the second day in a row
Infosys announced acquisition of digital commerce company Kallidus for $120 million.
The greenback rose 9 percent against currencies.
Faced with a spate of senior-level exits, Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy has written to employees to reassure them that the "leadership changes" will be in the "best interest" of the company.
Software services industry may have to relook its cost structure to maintain a higher margin.
From acquiring creative agencies, to setting up onsite innovation centres and turning around BFSI with entirely new digital offerings, 2018 had seen the IT industry going from initial lows to new highs.
Mid-sized IT firms have stepped up hiring in the current fiscal year, adding more than half as many employees in the first quarter of FY19 as compared to the whole of the previous financial year. This momentum is likely to continue for the rest of 2018-19 (FY19) as well.
India's second largest IT firm Infosys has extended the tenure of its chief Vishal Sikka by nearly two years till March 2021, saying his initiatives have helped the company move towards reclaiming its industry leadership position.
'Employee first and customer second' continues to be a very strong philosophy of HCL.
HCL Technologies is betting big on next-generation services and products that are likely to contribute 40 per cent of its revenues in 2-3 years.
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