Computer Sciences Corporation to increase headcount by 7000

Chennai: The Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt Ltd (CSC India) has plans to increase its headcount by 7,000 over the next two years. Presently the company, a subsidiary of the $14.6 billion Computer Sciences Corporation, has around 5,000 employees. Nearly half of the additions would be at the newly set up CSC India's Chennai centre.

The Chennai centre, to be inaugurated shortly will initially house around 400 employees. "We plan to ramp up the number of employees to 1,000 by this September and 3,000 by next year. The company would add the balance personnel (4,000) at its other centres, viz. Noida, Indore and Hyderabad," said Tom Kenyon, president and managing director, CSC India. Currently the Noida centre has around 2,800 employees, followed by Hyderabad (1,750) and Indore (450).

For the parent company that has a presence in 92 countries, India is the third largest delivery location in the world. CSC India serves most of the parent company's clients based in North America and Europe. The company is present in domains like insurance, banking, healthcare, retail, defence manufacturing, retail and others. Nearly 33 per cent of the parent company's revenue is derived from the American government, 19 per cent from defence, 17 per cent from financial services and the balance from other segments.

Speaking about the operations at the company's new centre Kenyon said, "The Chennai centre will render application and infrastructure services." According to him, the company is hiring freshers as well as experienced hands. "Nearly 10-15 per cent of the recruitments are freshers. Our attrition rate is 14 per cent."