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Infosys to hire over 20,000 freshers in FY26, says CFO

Infosys CFO Jayesh Sanghrajka added that the company is on track to reach its FY25 target of hiring around 15,000 freshers.

January 16, 2025 / 20:28 IST
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Infosys Chief financial officer (CFO) Jayesh Sanghrajka on January 16 said that the IT services major will be hiring over 20,000 freshers in the financial year 2026, signaling demand recovery and revival of discretionary spending in several sectors.

Sanghrajka added that the company is on track to reach its FY25 target of hiring around 15,000 freshers. This is in contrast to rival HCLTech, which had slashed its fresher hiring target to 7,000 from 10,000 earlier, driven by increased efficiency and productivity measures, such as Project Ascend.

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Infosys has hired 5,591 employees in the third quarter ended December 31. This will be the second consecutive quarter of net headcount addition for the company after seeing a slowdown for six quarter prior to that.

Speaking on the company’s overall hiring plans for the upcoming quarters, Salil Parekh, CEO and MD, Infosys said, “We have had strong hiring in Q3, with expansion of over 5,000 employees. We see (hiring) based on some our discretionary (spending), this will continue. But this will have seasonality as we see in our revenue.”