TCS best IT employer, Infosys the 8th

CHENNAI: Tata Consultancy Services retained its top position as the best IT employer in India, while software major Wipro figured nowhere among the Top 20 list, as per a survey by industry analysts.

While HCL Infosystems, iGATE, RMSI and Synechron occupied the next four slots after TCS, Infosys slipped four places to the eighth position, according to an annual survey conducted by Cybermedia’s flagship publication Dataquest in collaboration with IDC India. The seventh annual Dataquest-IDC survey was participated by 2,844 software, hardware and marketing professionals from 33 IT companies, totally employing 3.05 lakh people in seven cities.

The rating of employers was done on the basis of employee satisfaction and HR scores.

IBM was rated the sixth best employer, followed by Capgemini, Infosys, Tavant Technologies and Sun Microsystems.

According to the survey, TCS, with a large workforce based in foreign shores, followed innovative HR practices and maintained ethos across geographies to achieve consistency in workforce.

According to Pradeep Gupta, publisher of Cybermedia, multinational employers IBM, Capgemini, Sun Microsystems and CSC have mastered the art of managing Indian employees to rank among the Top 20 best IT employers in the country.

According to the survey, the average attrition rate was marginally down to 14 per cent from last year’s 15 per cent.

As far as job satisfaction was concerned, the employees voted career development and opportunities, work-life balance, organisational culture, job security and technology as the top five concerns.

Infosys remained the top ‘dream company’ as voted by one-tenth of the total participants, closely followed by TCS and IBM.

The number of women employees in the surveyed IT companies has slightly improved than last year. — PTI

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