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  French IT services major, Capgemini whose more than half of the workforce is located in India, has onboarded over 45,000 employees globally this year through lateral hiring. Earlier, in the month of March, Ashwin Yardi, CEO of Capgemini said, “India forms a very important part of our business and we will hire 25,000-30,000 people here this year on a gross basis.” Recently in an Interview with  Business Insiders , Capgemini CHRO Pallavi Tyagi said, “I believe that lateral hiring will continue to increase. If the business plans and expansion happen as we’re expecting then to happen, then hiring is not going to slow down,” The company has no plans of slowing down. Even as attrition levels drop, Capgemini India CHRO said. “While it’s good not to have high attrition, at the same time, if there is a need for a certain demand that we need to fill, we’re hiring for those posts,” said Tyagi. The big shift that Capgemini, and its peer companies, have seen is taking whatever training a...

  During the pandemic, workplaces may have moved to the new normal, but what also appears to be in sharp focus is the diversity and inclusion policies in organisations. The question also arises is, is every domain a level playing field for women?  Throwing light on this and more is  Radhika Ramesh, executive vice president of global delivery centre head for CIS India at Capgemini.  She entered the workforce 27 years ago and says it’s an optimistic scenario for women as companies are gradually opening up to accommodate women employees and tailor policies for their professional growth.  The French IT major’s Mumbai office for Cloud and Infrastructural Services (CIS) used to be a hub of about 4,000 professionals . As the COVID-19 pandemic mandated work from home, this has significantly reduced to a mere 300 – working from Mumbai while the rest transitioned to working from villages, other rural areas, tier II and III cities. “This gave us an insight into the infrast...