TCS reduced its offshore recruitment to 11500 candidates in FY17

TCS has hired 11500 people outside India during FY16-17, including graduates from top 10 Engineering and B-schools to tackle Visa related issues.

TCS and other IT companies use H1-B (For US) to send their employees to work on client sites, however, over past few weeks, governments in markets like US, Australia and New Zealand are tightening their work visa norms. Company has been hiring local talents in offshore markets to ensure compliance with rules.

Moreover, new technologies like process automation and artificial intelligence are fast making a number of jobs redundant, that in turn is impacting hiring at IT firms.

TCS added about 79000 employees gross, which is lesser than previous years hires of 90000. Also, TCS inducted 16173 people from offshore markets in the last fiscal, which is greater than this year's recruitment. TCS did not provide geographical details of the recruitment, but the figures speak for themselves, indicating that the total net intake will be lesser in upcoming years than current year in view of the changing dynamics of the market.