The IT major has seen a considerably superior abrasion rate at more than 17 percent for the past three-quarters of this fiscal.
In the last few years, the Bengaluru-headquartered IT firm had slowed down hiring from college campuses due to a lackluster business growth along with mechanization which has pretentious fresh hiring across software services projects at IT companies.
Wipro, the country's fourth-largest IT services company, is planning to double hiring from campus this year in a bid to meet new orders from customers and to tackle shortage issue due to high attrition.
Wipro has hired less than 10,000 people from campuses and a plan to double this year would also comprise onsite hiring as its peers are ramping up localization in the US and other markets.
"We had seen an immerse in our hiring. Now, we are doubling from previous years," Saurabh Govil, chief human resources officer, Wipro, told leading news agency. He said that the manufacturing has again in progress seeing the hiring of tens of thousands of engineers from campuses after a lull. During its peak, Wipro and other Indian services companies used to recruit roughly 20,000 people from campuses.
"We have come back to those numbers," said Govil adding that Wipro aims to hold its attrition rate at 14-15 percent in next two-three quarters.
Wipro has now rationalized its entry-level job offers with higher salary packages (Rs 6 lakh and above) based on their skills in digital technology areas. It follows tiered hiring model for fresher's which are segmented into three major categories with packages of Rs 3.5 lakh, Rs 6- Rs 6.5 lakh at the mid-tier and up to Rs 20 lakh for alumnae from premier technical universities like the Indian Institute of Technology.
In an attempt to curb attrition, Wipro had announced a one-time bonus to junior staff with less than five years of experience, who have continued working in the company after campus recruitments, in December last year. In the last three years, firms like Infosys, HCL, Wipro and aware have invested millions of dollars to train an existing workforce in new technologies and redeploying them in projects.
In December quarter, the company posted 39.5 percent increase in its net profit at Rs 2,518.4 crore on standalone basis compared to Rs 1,804.5 crore reported in the consequent quarter in the year-ago period. The revenue from operations also spiked to Rs 12,138.7 crore during the December quarter of current fiscal as compared to Rs 11,072.7 crore to the same period from the past financial year after an annual increase of 9.6 percent.
