HCL Tech to hire 20,000 people in next two quarters: CEO C Vijayakumar About 15% of these would be for onshore locations or client geographies with the remaining will be offshore, said HCL chief executive C VijayakumarPTI | Jan 16, 2021, 02:52PM IST IT services major HCL Technologies is looking at hiring about 20,000 people over the next two quarters to meet the demand coming in on the back of strong growth in deal signing and adoption of digital services. The Noida-based company, which crossed $10 billion milestone in the calendar year 2020, had 1,59,682 employees at the end of December 31, 2020. It saw a gross addition of 12,422 people, while net addition during the December 2020 quarter was of 6,597 people. Attrition for IT services (on last 12 month basis) was at 10.2%.