The country’s
biggest IT company Tata Consultancy Services has already
made campus offers to 43,604 students across 389 colleges for fiscal
2013, the company’s annual report released on Monday said. The company plans
to hire around 60,000 freshersduring the current fiscal.
The company continued to
hire to support business growth. With campus trainees joining the company from
the beginning of July-September quarter, lateral hiring accounted for 75% of
total hiring in Q1.
There was a total gross addition of 11,988 people (net addition of
3,576) taking the total employee strength of 202,190 on a consolidated basis.
Aggressive expense
management, the report said, has helped the company in offsetting the increase
in manpower cost. TCS has managed to maintain its EBITDA
margin within a band over 2004-05 and 2011-12. The margin was 28.9% in
2004-05 and 29.5% in 2011-12). Though manpower costs increased by 550 basis
points during this period (from 45% of revenue to 50.5%), this was offset by
aggressive cost management. Non-manpower expenses declined by 620 basis points
during this period (from 26.2% of revenue to 20%).
TCS’s payout ratio (excluding special
dividends) has steadily increased over the years, from 27.6% in 2004-05 to
37.2% in 2011-12. In addition, it paid out substantial special dividends in two
of the last three years (Rs 2,280 crore in 2009-10 and Rs 1,820 crore in 2011-12).
Of the total cash generated during this period, about 40% has been returned to
shareholders in the form of dividends and about 9% has been spent on
acquisitions.