India’s second largest software exporter, Infosys Technologies, has said it will honour its commitment of employing all the candidates to whom it has issued call letters.
“All the call letters that have been sent will be honoured. We are sticking to our numbers,” Infosys Co-Chairman Nandan Nilekani told mediapersons on the sidelines of a CII event in the city today.
The software major usually starts recruitment in April or May. However, it recently said that it had put a freeze on fresh recruitments after meeting this financial year’s target of hiring 25,000 people. It added, though, that it would honour its commitment of hiring 18,000 campus students who pass out in July 2009. Infosys Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director S Gopalakrishnan had also stated that the company might consider hiring some people towards the end of the second quarter of 2009-10.
Meanwhile, on the issue of the US government putting curbs on H-1B visas, Nilekani said protectionist measures would not help anyone. “Certainly, we are all for free trade, it is good for the world, it is a way of spurring growth. While there is this murmur (H1-B visa issue), fundamentally, I am hopeful that people realise that we need free trade,” he added.
India’s IT-BPO body, National Association of Services and Software Companies, recently said that protectionist measures such as the “Buy America” clause and the H-1B legislation suggested by the US government would not have any impact on India’s IT-BPO industry but would hurt the US economy.
