{"id":1020711,"date":"2026-07-14T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020711"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:08:59","slug":"hcltech-q1-headcount-drops-by-3292-employees-fresher-additions-hit-a-3-quarter-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/hcltech-q1-headcount-drops-by-3292-employees-fresher-additions-hit-a-3-quarter-low\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLTech Q1 headcount drops by 3,292 employees; fresher additions hit a 3-quarter low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HCLTech maintained its FY27 guidance, and the Q1FY27 net profit beat estimates, but in terms of net employee addition, the company has seen significant decline on a sequential basis. Even the attrition rate has come in a shade higher than Q4, though it is lower than TCS\u2019, which traditionally has one of the highest attrition rates in the industry. <\/p>\n<p>However, the comparison ends there. While TCS saw the strongest hiring in 4 years in Q1, HCLTech reported that the net employee count came in at 223,889. This is down 3,292 employees compared to 227,181 employees in Q4FY26. The employee count had increased marginally the last quarter but saw a sharp fall in Q1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCLTech maintained its FY27 guidance, and the Q1FY27 net profit beat estimates, but in terms of net employee addition, the company has seen significant decline on a sequential basis. Even the attrition rate has come in a shade higher than Q4, though it is lower than TCS\u2019, which traditionally has one of the highest attrition rates in the industry. However, the comparison ends there. While TCS saw the strongest hiring in 4 years in Q1, HCLTech reported that the net employee count came in at 223,889. This is down 3,292 employees compared to 227,181 employees in Q4FY26. The employee count [&hellip;]<\/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-1020711","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\/1020711","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=1020711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020712,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020711\/revisions\/1020712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}