‘By P. Sarojini’
New Delhi (CWNN)_ The largest Indian software company Tata Consultancy Services announced on Wednesday that they are all set to recruit 10,000 staffs in the USA by 2022 as they analysed a surge of demand for their services in US. To note, TCS has hired over 21,500 employees in the past five years in US. This act of Indian IT firms hiring in the US and international markets has increased in the past few years.
The Company said ” TCS has been among the top two US recruiters of IT services talent, hiring more than 21,500 employees in the past five years alone. With technology emerging as central to US enterprises ability to respond and recover from the pandemic, TCS has seen a surge in demand for its services,” and added that to support this growth, the company has planned to recruit an additional 10,000 employees in the US by 2022. The fact that these countries have tighten their work visa policies have pushed many Indian IT companies in the USA to hire more of US staff. The diverse workforce of TCS comprises of 147 nationalities and the consolidated headcount of TCS stands at 4,53,540 as of September 2020.
It was said that the company clocked 3.6 per cent sequential growth in revenue to USD 2.7 billion in the September 2020 quarter with the North America market accounting for about half of the quarter’s topline.
Based on the strength of its brand reputation across channels, business performance, industry-led job creation, scale of employee training and development and dedication to nationwide corporate social responsibility initiatives, TCS has been selected as the Superbrands in the US.
The statement said that Superbrands is an independent arbiter of branding that evaluated companies in the US across more than 90 industries, and TCS was one of 35 brands accorded the US Superbrands status, along with Amazon and Google in the technology sector.
TCS said that it has invested in its TCS Pace Port co-innovation and advanced research Centre at the Cornell Tech campus in New York and similar Pace Ports will be launched in 2021 in TCS Hall on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University and at other locations across the country.
The Mumbai-based company has also invested in local communities across the USA, focusing on education and wellness. In 2019, more than 18,500 of its US employees volunteered for TCS’ flagship education platforms.
TCS Chairman of North America Surya Kant said “Our sustained investments in local talent development and in creating co-innovation ecosystems and infrastructure have significantly enhanced our brand and made us the preferred partner for leading US corporations in their growth and transformation journeys”.
