Tata Consultancy Services lifts curb on lateral hiring amid Covid-19 crisis

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s biggest IT services company, has lifted the freeze on lateral hiring (employing experienced people from industry) it had imposed in the last quarter of 2019-20 financial year. 

The Mumbai-headquartered company, however, said it would selectively hire experienced employees from outside.

“We are looking forward to the demand environment, and (have) decided to selectively open up on lateral hiring, apart from onboarding new associates into the ecosystem,” said Rajesh Gopinathan, chief executive officer and managing director, TCS. 

“We had indicated in the last quarter that lateral would be frozen due to the (Covid-19) uncertainty but