Pune to host Infosys's biggest campus

CMN Bureau

BANGALORE, INDIA: Come March and Pune will be the biggest center for Infosys Technologies.

Speaking to the media after announcing the second quarter financial results, T V Mohandas Pai, member of the Board and chief of Human Resources at Infosys, said that the company would be employing over 23,000 people at its center in Pune. Its Bangalore center will employ 22,000 people.

“We are expanding in various cities. For instance, we have taken 450-acre land in Hyderabad. Similarly we have land in Jaipur, Mangalore, Thiruvananthapuram and Bangalore. Since due to the non availability of the land in Bangalore, we are not in a position to expand here,” he said.

The company is also set to hit the one lakh employment mark early next year. Currently Infosys employs 80,501 people and intends to hire 9500 people in the third quarter and 4500 in the fourth quarter.

“However, we are also facing attrition. We have experienced 0.5 per cent increase in the attrition this quarter because people are looking at taking a break from the employment for higher studies. Around 1300 people this year left Infosys for higher studies,” said Pai.

Meanwhile, Infosys has made 18,000 offers for the coming year in 1000 colleges. “In the campus recruitment we have made 18,000 offers from the top 1000 colleges in the country, added Pai. The company has trained over 31,000 students under the campus connect program.

On the expansion of the Mysore campus, Pai said that the work has been slowed down.

“All of a sudden there is a shortage of cement in the market. Costs have also increased drastically. A cement bag worth Rs 200 is now quoting Rs 270. Also there is a shortage of workers. Because of these problems our expansion work at Mysore campus has slow down,” he added.