Infosys to hire 35,000 in 2013

Clean Media Correspondent

New Dilhi: April 13: (CMC) Infosys on Friday said it will hire

35,000 people this fiscal, including 13,000 for its BPO

operations.

“We are going to add 35,000 more people next year, which

includes 13,000 people for the BPO operations,” Infosys

Chief Financial Officer V. Balakrishnan said. Infosys and its

subsidiaries added 10,676 employees in the fourth quarter of

FY’12, while the net addition during the period stood at 4,906

people. Its total employee strength was 1,49,994 as on

March 31. Infosys on Friday reported a 27.4 per cent jump in

consolidated net profit at Rs 2,316 crore for Q4 FY’12, as

against Rs 1,818 crore in the January-March quarter of

FY’11.

Infosys also plans to hire about 1,200 in the US. “In the last

two years, we hired 1,200 people onsite in the US each year

(who were) local hire. We are going to continue with that this

year and will hire 1,200 people in the US,” Mr. Balakrishnan

said.