Infosys to drive away the unfit techies

New Delhi, May 11: As we know that, The US based company Cognizant had already announced a voluntary separation program for directors, associate VPs and senior VPs in last week, which offering them 6-9 months of salary.

Now, Infosys also planning to soon "fire" an unspecified number of its techies for "non-performance", over a week after announcing on May 2 that it would hire 10,000 Americans in the US, said the global software major on Wednesday.

A city-based company said that,"A continued low feedback on performance could lead to certain performance actions, including separation of an individual".



As a bi-annual exercise, the IT major's management would make performance assessments of its employees, keeping in view the business goals set for individuals.

Infosys official stated that "Performance assessments are done with reference to the goals individuals have on business objectives and other strategic priorities"

The Wipro company too sacked about 600-700 employees during the fiscal 2016-17, ostensibly for non-performance or not rising to its expectations.

Infosys revealed the 'hire and fire' policy comes months after a whopping 37,915 engineers left the company and its hiring plunged 65 percent in the last fiscal 2016-17, due to increasing automation and thrust on artificial intelligence in its operations and projects.