Wipro to hire sacked staffers

BANGALORE: If you are a pink slip recipient from Wipro, here’s a piece of good news. Wipro plans to rehire some of the employees it fired a year ago. "Non-performance was the reason for these separations. However, we are open to rehire some of these people who were fired by us a year ago, if they come back to us with additional skill sets. A one-year window would have been enough for them to acquire some additional skills," said Joseph John, vice-president (HR) in Wipro Infotech, the business that looks at the India and Middle-East markets.

The tech major's involuntary attrition rate has gone up by 2 percentage points in the last 16 months. Wipro Infotech said it would also resume campus hiring from January. "We are looking at hiring over 1,000 laterals during the fiscal and 1,000 freshers from campuses in January," said John.

The division, which recruited 1,000 people in the first six months of the fiscal, expects hiring numbers in the second half of the year to be more than double of that.

The additional people requirement comes with Wipro winning a slew of large projects in India and the Middle-East, and also to cater to the growing requirements of existing accounts. The company hired 200 people in Saudi Arabia and Egypt recently.


Wipro is also hiring for its Global Service Management Centre in Mysore with almost 5% jobs earmarked for differently-abled people.

Wipro Infotech is planning to raise the ratio of its women employees from 13% now to 20% in the next two years.
On salary hikes, John said the company had not budgeted a hike at the start of the fiscal. "But we have decided to raise salaries in the fourth quarter across the board."

Monish, Bangalore, says: What an Idea sirjee!!!! Do wipro really have an HR and Startergy Team.. or all has been pink slipped for non-performance.... umm....I pity wipro and its future. Beware dear Wipro Mgmt its time you realize for your mistakes and pay for them dearly.
[10 Nov, 2009 1644hrs IST]

karthik, chennai, says: why would any one who has been laid of at a time of crisis risk joining the same company again?.I bet there will be 0 takers.
[10 Nov, 2009 1631hrs IST]

Amit, Bangalore, says: what a non-sense! One yr back they fired them on performance basis and now they are hiring back. What improvement one can do who is sitting at home for 1 year? They just want to hire the same resources at much lower cost. All this propaganda of firing and rehiring is to save cost nothing else. Actually Wipro is the worst company with no ethics among all indian IT companies.....