{"id":972360,"date":"2025-11-07T07:54:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972360"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:53:55","slug":"it-midcaps-pull-away-from-delivery-model-linked-to-headcount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/07\/it-midcaps-pull-away-from-delivery-model-linked-to-headcount\/","title":{"rendered":"IT midcaps pull away from delivery model linked to headcount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-tier IT firms such as Persistent Systems, Coforge, and Mphasis are pulling away from the traditional, headcount-driven delivery model that has long defined the sector while posting revenue gains that far outpace any increase in their workforces, as productivity gains from AI-led deals become more visible across select companies.<\/p>\n<p>Persistent Systems&#8217; revenue rose 23.6% year-on-year to \u20b93,580 crore in the September quarter, with headcount inching up just 1.1%. Coforge&#8217;s revenue jumped 31% in the same quarter and its headcount rose 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-tier IT firms such as Persistent Systems, Coforge, and Mphasis are pulling away from the traditional, headcount-driven delivery model that has long defined the sector while posting revenue gains that far outpace any increase in their workforces, as productivity gains from AI-led deals become more visible across select companies. Persistent Systems&#8217; revenue rose 23.6% year-on-year to \u20b93,580 crore in the September quarter, with headcount inching up just 1.1%. Coforge&#8217;s revenue jumped 31% in the same quarter and its headcount rose 2%.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972360","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=972360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}