{"id":1020694,"date":"2026-07-14T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020694"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:10:11","slug":"hcltech-headcount-sees-steepest-sequential-fall-in-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/hcltech-headcount-sees-steepest-sequential-fall-in-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLTech headcount sees steepest sequential fall in 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HCL Tech reported the highest sequential dip in headcount since Q1FY25 for the quarter ended June 30. The IT major\u2019s employee base reduced by 3,292 in the first quarter of FY27. At the end of the quarter, its total headcount stood at 223,889 compared to 227,181 in the March quarter. <\/p>\n<p>This contrasts with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) adding 9,200 employees in Q1, marking a second consecutive quarter of net hiring after the company added 2,356 employees in the March quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCL Tech reported the highest sequential dip in headcount since Q1FY25 for the quarter ended June 30. The IT major\u2019s employee base reduced by 3,292 in the first quarter of FY27. At the end of the quarter, its total headcount stood at 223,889 compared to 227,181 in the March quarter. This contrasts with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) adding 9,200 employees in Q1, marking a second consecutive quarter of net hiring after the company added 2,356 employees in the March quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020716,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020694\/revisions\/1020716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}