L&T Technology Services (LTTS) announced that Amit Chadha has taken over as CEO & managing director of the company with effect from April 1, in line with previous disclosures made to stock exchanges in October last year. Prior to his elevation, he was serving the company as deputy CEO and as a full-time board member. Chadha, who joined LTTS in 2009, has been a key member of LTTS’ executive management team and was closely involved in the company’s listing on stock exchanges in 2016. Subsequently, he progressed to assume charge as president, Sales and Business Development, where he was responsible for helping global R&D customers and Fortune 500 companies leverage LTTS’ digital engineering offerings for their strategic differentiation and product development.
Read more about IT sector sales rise 5.2% in third quarter, shows RBI data on Business Standard. Information technology (IT) sector remained in the positive terrain throughout the Covid-19 pandemic period
As digitisation has increased in the country due to the pandemic, a report has showed that hiring in technology roles between April 2020 and January 2021 was consistently above pre-COVID-19 levels, peaking in November 2020. Job postings for technology-related positions in India rose 13 per cent in January from a year ago, according to a report by global job site Indeed. While hiring in tech roles between April 2020 and January 2021 was consistently above pre-pandemic levels, peaking 17 per cent in November 2020, it added. The report is based on data of job listings on Indeed platform from January 2020 till January 2021. Indeed.com Managing Director Sashi Kumar noted, With the pandemic necessitating remote working and more technology-based business operations, organisations have had to ramp up their tech hiring to support this transition.
Covid-19 outbreak has tested Infosys’ resilience and its shift to being a ‘live enterprise’, said Nandan Nilekani, chairman, Infosys at a virtual launch of the book, ‘The Live Enterprise’. Nilekani also said that Live Enterprise is an idea of how companies will be run in the future and a lot of it has actually come out of Infosys’ own experience over the last three years. Over the last three years Infosys has been on a major drive of reinventing itself “of making itself more agile, completely re-architecting its digital infrastructure, creating a very active learning platform, called as LeX and wing spanned it to our customer, creating a way for employees to interact with company digitally from wherever they are on their phones using the InyMe App and then during the pandemic using the Meridian collaboration tool. We have learnt a lot from this experience and we have taken this experience to over 1,000 clients around the world and this combined knowledge of what we l
Cognizant has stepped up its hiring efforts for both freshers and lateral hires in the country and expects the number of new recruits in the March quarter to be more than ever before , Cognizant India Chairman and Managing Director Rajesh Nambiar said. The US-based company, which has over two lakh employees in India, expects to hire more than 23,000 fresh graduates this year in the country. India has always been and will continue to be a very important part of what we do in Cognizant. At nearly 2,04,500, our India headcount at the end of 2020 was Cognizant s highest ever in the country. We continue to be one of the top recruiters of high-quality engineering, science, management and other talent in India, Nambiar told PTI.