These four IT companies will hire 60,000 women employees from campuses

The pandemic has affected the fairer gender the most. But there is some respite for the working women, especially in the IT sector. India’s information technology (IT) sector is expected to outshine all the sectors with respect to the hiring of candidates. Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL Technologies are the four IT giants likely to together hire around 60,000 women from campuses this year, according to a report in The Economic Times. The IT giants in a pledge to improve gender diversity plans to hire women candidates across India.

The hiring of women in entry-level roles is likely to be highest for most of these top IT companies. As many as 60% of new employees hired by HCL will be women. Wipro and Infosys are each targeting this to be about half the entry-level recruitments. At Tata Consultancy Services, this is likely to be 38-45% as in the past three years.

A total of 22,000 people will be hired by HCL for entry-level posts this year. It aims to achieve a 50:50 ratio in gender diversity in the coming years.

“As demand for digital talent soars, the industry is further looking at enhancing women participation in the workforce through increased campus hiring, hybrid work models and skilling interventions,” said Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice-president, Nasscom.

Infosys aims to have 45% female employees in its total workforce by 2030. The company plans to hire and train about 35,000 college graduates for fiscal 2022,

India’s largest IT services company, TCS, is likely to hire 15,000-18,000 women out of 40,000 freshers.

Wipro will have 30,000 campus hirings this year and expects half of them to be women. At present, around 35% of employees at Wipro are women.

The pandemic has given rise to more work from home and flexible work models, especially in the tech sector. “As a result, it would be easier for the industry to be able to tap into the talent pool of women that had made an exit,” Nasscom’s Gupta said.