IT main Tata Consultancy Providers (TCS), reported a discount of 5,370 staff in its workforce through the fiscal third quarter, ending a pattern of headcount progress noticed within the earlier two quarters. Attrition for the quarter noticed a slight enhance, reaching 13 p.c in comparison with 12.3 p.c within the earlier quarter.
Within the October quarter, the Tata Group firm had added 5,726 staff to its workforce.
Following this decline, TCS’s whole worker depend now stands at 6,07,354, as introduced on January 9 with the discharge of its third-quarter FY25 figures.
“We promoted over 25,000 associates this quarter which introduced the overall promotions this monetary 12 months to greater than 110,000. We proceed to put money into worker upskilling and total well-being. Our campus hiring for the 12 months goes in line with plan and preparations are afoot to onboard the next variety of campus hires subsequent 12 months,” Chief Human Assets Officer Milind Lakkad was quoted as saying within the launch.
The Mumbai-based firm skilled its first headcount discount in 19 years throughout FY24, a big change since its inventory market debut in 2004. In distinction, the IT large had added 22,600 staff in FY23 and a formidable internet addition of 1.03 lakh staff in FY22.
TCS Q3 outcomes
In Q3, TCS posted a consolidated internet revenue of ₹12,380 crore, reflecting a 12 per cent enhance from ₹11,058 crore in the identical quarter final 12 months.
The corporate’s consolidated operational income elevated by 5.6 per cent year-on-year, reaching ₹63,973 crore in comparison with ₹60,583 crore in the identical quarter of the earlier 12 months. When adjusted for fixed foreign money, the income grew by 4.5 per cent.
The IT bellwether has introduced a 3rd interim dividend of ₹10 and a particular dividend of ₹66 per share, each relevant to its fairness shares of ₹1 every. These dividends are set to be distributed to shareholders on Monday, February 3, 2025. The document date to find out eligibility for these dividends is Friday, January 17, 2025123.