IT companies TCS, Infosys and Wipro added a record 1.7 lakh employees in 2021, as compared to the 31,000 they had hired in 2020.
For the first three quarters of FY22, the three companies hired 1.34 lakh employees. While TCS recorded a net addition of 87,725 employees in 2021, Wipro and Infosys added 41,363 and 42,755 employees, respectively.
The three IT firms stepped up their fresher hiring numbers in FY22. At 17,500, Wipro’s fresher hiring is 70 percent more than what the company hired in FY21. Infosys will hire 55,000 freshers in FY22, and TCS has on-boarded a record 78,000 campus recruits so far.
This momentum is likely to continue in the next year as well.