“AI is being launched as a co-pilot to enhance human capabilities, not exchange them,” she mentioned. “Whereas some roles could also be redefined, our focus is on reskilling and upskilling staff to tackle greater worth duties. We’re dedicated to a responsible AI adoption technique that prioritises worker development and job transformation over job discount.”
Her feedback come at a time when the IT sector is seeing slower hiring. Within the first quarter of FY26, internet additions to workers throughout India’s prime IT corporations remained low, indicating a extra cautious strategy to recruitment. Whereas a couple of corporations reported slight positive aspects, the general pattern suggests hiring has cooled.
HCLTech employed 1,984 freshers within the quarter ended June. Its whole headcount stood at 223,151 that quarter, barely down from 223,420 within the earlier quarter. The attrition fee additionally noticed a small drop from 13% in March to 12.8% in June.
Chief folks officer Ram Sundararajan not too long ago mentioned that HCLTech goals to make 15% of its fresher intake targeted on specialised and AI-related roles. He mentioned that over the previous two quarters, the corporate has additionally been growing an “elite cadre” of extremely expert staff. These roles include considerably greater pay, as much as 3 times extra in companies and 4 occasions extra in software program, than what is obtainable to common freshers.
This technique is in distinction to latest developments at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which final month introduced the most important spherical of layoffs in India’s IT sector thus far, cutting about 2% of its global workforce or roughly 12,000 jobs.
Different IT corporations, together with Infosys, have additionally decreased workers—all trainees who didn’t clear inner assessments.
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