Nearly 20,000 employees to be trained in GenAI every quarter: HCLTech

IT services giant HCLTech in its Q1 earnings call said that the company plans to train and upskill around 20,000 employees in Generative AI (GenAI) every quarter, with an overall target to train around 1 lakh employees in GenAI skills by the end of FY25. Ramachandran Sundararajan, chief people officer, HCLTech said, “I think the biggest thing is the traction that we are seeing in GenAI. Last quarter, we reported the investments we are making in upskilling our people for GenAI skills. If you recall, last year we trained and certified about 42,000 employees.”