{"id":1024503,"date":"2026-07-29T09:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024503"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:10:20","slug":"hcl-employees-chant-we-want-a-hike-as-ceo-vijayakumar-takes-stage-at-chennai-event-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/hcl-employees-chant-we-want-a-hike-as-ceo-vijayakumar-takes-stage-at-chennai-event-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"HCL employees chant &#8216;We want a hike&#8217; as CEO Vijayakumar takes stage at Chennai event &#8211; viral video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videos from HCL Group&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebrations are doing the rounds on social media, not because of the grand festivities but for an unprecedented reason: Employees were heard chanting &#8220;We want a hike&#8221; in front of the company&#8217;s CEO during the event.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been organising a series of concerts across several cities, with the Chennai edition featuring an exclusive live performance by singer and composer Anirudh Ravichander for employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos from HCL Group&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebrations are doing the rounds on social media, not because of the grand festivities but for an unprecedented reason: Employees were heard chanting &#8220;We want a hike&#8221; in front of the company&#8217;s CEO during the event. The company has been organising a series of concerts across several cities, with the Chennai edition featuring an exclusive live performance by singer and composer Anirudh Ravichander for employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024503","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024504,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024503\/revisions\/1024504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}