{"id":25164,"date":"2016-04-28T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T04:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/automation-raises-indian-it-industrys-productivity-firms-like-infosys-tcs-likely-to-see-lower-hiring"},"modified":"2017-04-25T23:09:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T06:09:27","slug":"automation-raises-indian-it-industrys-productivity-firms-like-infosys-tcs-likely-to-see-lower-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/automation-raises-indian-it-industrys-productivity-firms-like-infosys-tcs-likely-to-see-lower-hiring","title":{"rendered":"Automation raises Indian IT industry\u2019s productivity; firms like Infosys, TCS likely to see lower hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/automation-raises-indian-it-industrys-productivity-firms-like-infosys-tcs-likely-to-see-lower-hiring.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The latest figures are a clear sign that India\u2019s largest outsourcing firms are succeeding at \u2018non-linear\u2019 growth, where revenues increase disproportionately compared with hiring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/automation-raises-indian-it-industrys-productivity-firms-like-infosys-tcs-likely-to-see-lower-hiring2.jpg\" title=\"alt=\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p> While the numbers are good <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/news\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> for an industry that is trying to defend profit margins, it raises concerns over the future of hiring and the availability of engineering <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jobs\" target=\"_blank\">jobs<\/a> in a sector that employs over three million people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing now is about 200,000 people being hired in the IT industry \u2014 it\u2019s not the 4\u20135 lakhs that they used to hire 10 years ago. And that\u2019s because the growth has shrunk from 35\u201340% and the competition was for resources. Even now the competition is for resources, but it\u2019s for slightly more experienced resources \u2014 people who can work on automation, artificial intelligence, machine languages, data sciences. So, it\u2019s not hiring for Java coding anymore,\u201d said Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/ites\/automation-raises-indian-it-industrys-productivity-firms-like-infosys-tcs-likely-to-see-lower-hiring\/articleshow\/52032913.cms\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/tech\/ites\/automation-rai...032913.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm; The latest figures are a clear sign that India\u2019s largest outsourcing firms are succeeding at \u2018non-linear\u2019 growth, where revenues increase disproportionately compared with hiring. While the numbers are good news for an industry that is trying to defend profit margins, it raises concerns over the future of hiring and the availability of engineering jobs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56007,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25164\/revisions\/56007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}