Most of Infy non-performers are Bangalore based
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 20 April 2009, 16:03 IST
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Bangalore: The tolerance level of the IT major Infosys seems to be less towards the Bangalore Center than non-Bangalore centers. The 60,000 people who were put through the annual performance appraisal exercise of which 2100 staff were laid off or outplaced, consisted of only 0.4 percent from non-Bangalore centers. "Employees who have been consistently demonstrating poor performance were counselled out. Less than one percent of our 11,250 employees in Chennai and 11,496 employees in Hyderabad have been impacted. As for the Thiruvananthapuram centre, less than one percent of the 1,800 employees were impacted," Mohandas Pai, member of the board, director, human resources, Infosys Technologies told Business Standard. People who have the potential or the attitude to improve performance are put on a personal development plan. Otherwise, they are 'outplaced' - provided with resources to find a job with another company. The company did not comment on its strategies of deploying the fresher intake of over 16,000 people planned for fiscal 2010. Infosys officials have stressed that all new staff joining the company would be "gainfully employed" on internal and ongoing projects after completion of their training period. Infosys has increased its trainee probation periods from four to seven months, partly to control variable costs and partly in anticipation of a sluggish project pipeline till September this year.

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