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Infy to add 13,000 staff in Pune in 2 yrs

September 15th, 2008

PUNE: Software services major Infosys will take the count of its employees at Pune campus to 38,700 in the next two years, an addition of 13,000 to its present strenght of 25,700. The company is in the midst of completing the construction of its second campus at Rajeev Gandhi Information Technology Park, Hinjewadi, at a capital outlay of Rs 1500 crore.

T.V. Mohandas Pai, director and head of human resources function at Infosys told media persons on Monday that the Pune development centre has now left behind the company’s Bangalore headquarters in terms of employees engaged. “Next major growth is expected in centres such as Pune, Chennai or Hyderabad,” Pai said.

Infosys has two locations within Hinjewadi Park. The first one is a 25 acre campus, where the company employs 4321 people out which 1046 are in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) segment. In the second phase, the company has planned 21400 seats, whereas the number of employees is 19000 out of which 5000 are in the BPO operations, Pai informed, adding that the investment level is at Rs 1052 crore.

Infosys will invest another Rs 500 crore over the next two years to create additional 13000 seats in the Special Economic Zone in the second phase, Pai said. the entire investment and expansion will be complete in the next 24 months he said.

The company is looking at Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) and Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) as new areas of business opportunity, as the law firms as well as corporates, mainly in the United States, have begun outsourcing of legal documentation work to India. “We estimate the current market size of LPO segment at $ 200 million and expect it to rise to $ 2 billion in four years’ time,” Pai added.

Pai said Pune centre has been contributing strongly in terms of company’s exports and exports from Pune were $835 million (Rs 3340 crore) in the year 2007-08. He said the company has been implementing Campus Connect - a programme of strategic intervention in the field of education and trained 190 faculty members from 46 engineering colleges who in turn will train the students to prepare for the company’s business.

There is also a move to train college level students in soft skills and make them ready to take up positions in the company’s BPO division, he informed, adding that 7700 students from Maharashtra have registered for this programme, called Project Genesis, he said.

Pai said despite the slowdown in the international markets, the company has not lowered its national target of hiring employees and has hired 18000 of them in the last year. This year the target is to hire 25,000, he informed.

Source: The Times of India

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