More job losses? 10,000 freshers from major IT firms Infosys, Wipro and TCS await onboarding: Report

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Times of India reported. As per the report, Harpreet Singh Saluja, the President of the IT employee union, said that candidates who were offered positions in companies including TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Zensar, and LTIMindtree have complained to the labour union about delays in onboarding.

These grievances involve both top-tier and mid-tier IT companies, as reported by the TOI.The report added that the delay in onboarding freshers is mainly due to business uncertainty in North America and Europe, where indications of a slowdown have made clients cautious about IT expenditures.In a company like Infosys, the candidates were informed via email that their joining would depend on business needs, and they would receive notification 3-4 weeks before their start date, according to a review by the daily.Wipro, too, has not onboarded campus offers made to candidates two years ago. "The year before last, we went to campus and made many offers.

We are yet to honour those. We will finish those offers and then hire new freshers.

We will induct freshers this year, but we cannot give a number as the macro environment is uncertain," Wipro CHRO Saurabh Govil had said during a recent earnings call, as quoted by TOI.Krishna Vij, the business head of IT staffing company Teamlease, stated that about 3-5 per cent of freshers recruited by leading IT services firms in 2022 are yet to begin their onboarding process. "This could be due to lack of project visibility, and employers focus on the required skill sets and job readiness of the candidates," Vij said as quoted by the newspaper.IT majors like TCS, Infosys, and Wipro recently announced their January-March quarter results for fiscal 2023-24 (Q4FY24).