Lakkad said wage hikes could be rolled out anytime during the fiscal, depending on business environment.
TCS CEO K Krithivasan said the IT major expects calendar year 2025 to be better that CY2024. "FY26 will be better than FY25, though there will be some short term uncertainties," he said
The focus will remain on the management’s generative AI deals commentary, trajectory of the BSNL deal as it has run past its peak revenue contribution phase, margin impact from the rupee depreciation, client budgets and large deals outlook.
TCS CEO and MD K Krithivasan said that deal TCVs always have some “lumpiness” and deals which were expected to close last quarter sometimes gets pushed to the subsequent quarters.
The company said that they have now over 600 AI/GenAI engagements deployed successfully in production or in various phases of development.
TCS said that it has commenced campus hiring process for next year to on board freshers.
TCS reported a net profit of Rs 11,342 crore for the September quarter, growing 8.7 percent YoY, driven by a strong order book, especially in the BFSI segment
While the company previously announced a 25x25 model of working by 2025, it did not commit to anything and will assess future work models as they go forward.
The company also rolled out salary hikes to its employees during the quarter, with hikes of 12-15 percent for high performers.
"This structure was put in place after all the internal discussion so there is no rush to do anything,” CEO designate K Krithivasan told analysts.
Subramaniam said TCS will have a centre of excellence around generative AI
Chief Human Resources Officer Milind Lakkad said that while there have been delays of 1-2 months in onboarding, the company has honoured all past offers.
Outgoing CEO Rajesh Gopinathan will stay on till September 15 to help with the transition.
The net headcount addition in FY23 has seen a steep decline of 78 percent from FY22. The company had previously also attributed the decreased hiring in FY23 to increased hiring in the preceding fiscal.
For senior employees, the individual variable payout is based on business unit performance.
In an interview to Moneycontrol, Rajesh Gopinathan said the company doubled its typical trainee intake during the quarters of increased demand in the 2021 calendar year.
In terms of growth rate, while TCS is expected to end FY23 with a growth rate of over 13%, analysts at Kotak expect a moderation in growth in FY24 to 8.1% amid an increasingly slowing demand environment.
More normal hiring trend on the cards with TCS planning to hire 1.25-1.5 lakhs this year. Along with an expected normalisation of attrition levels, the company hopes to have sufficient capacity to take care of growth
TCS Q3 Earnings: The company said that growth this quarter was driven by cloud services and market share gains through vendor consolidation.
A contraction in the net addition number of TCS was seen previously in the first quarter of FY21.
The variable payout for the remaining 30 percent of employees will be based on the business unit performance, TCS CHRO Milind Lakkad said.
The company’s headcount as of June 30 is 6,06,331, up from 5.92 lakh employees last quarter.
TCS, which does not normally issue guidance on its likely performance in the quarters ahead, sees itself getting on to a double digit growth trajectory in FY22 as it anticipates a multi-year technology transformation cycle
The company’s over 20 quarter high growth of 4.8 percent QoQ comes at the back of what the IT major terms as multi-year tech transformation cycle, where clients are migrating to cloud, investing in digital collaboration tools and touchless technology.