HCL Infosystems Win Top Accolades in the ‘DQ: IDC Best Employer Award 2009’

New Delhi, September 17th, 2009: HCL Infosystems Ltd, India’s premier information enabling ICT System Integration Company bagged the No. 1 spot in the DQ:IDC Best Employer Survey 2009. The 9th annual survey conducted jointly by CyberMedia’s flagship publication Dataquest and IDC is a comprehensive report on the Human Resources initiatives in the Indian IT companies, conducted in seven cities of India,.

Having featured in the top three list in this annual survey for four years consecutively, taking the number one spot this year could be credited to a number of path breaking employee centric initiatives taken during the year including introduction of unique employee benefit & skill enhancement programmes coupled with a state of the art career planning initiatives.

Culled from India’s extensive IT industry, the Top 20 Best IT Employers are chosen based on 11 parameters, five from the HR survey and six from the employee survey. This year the survey was conducted in 31 Indian IT companies with 2,935 employees. Out of this, 20 were short listed based on the employee strength, average tenure, average training, attrition rate, retention rate, proportion of promotions granted, cost to company, ratio of the fixed component in the salary and the male to female ratio.

Commenting on the occasion Mr. J.V. Ramamurthy, COO, HCL Infosystems Ltd said,” We at HCL are very delighted to win the Best Employer Award ’09. For years, HCL Infosystems has been the only ICT products company in the BES Top10 club, and this year too we lived up to our image continuing to be the No 1 dream company”.

According to Mr. Vivek Punekar, VP, HR, HCL Infosystems said “over the years our focus has been on creating a learning organization, encourage entrepreneurship, nurture talent and introduce multi-dimensional training programmes that will help to improve the learning curve of our employees. This award certainly recognizes our efforts in employee development and ensuring a progressive work environment.”

HCL Infosystems’ unique HR philosophy of ‘Recruiting, Rewarding and Retaining the Best’, along with a number of innovative measures has enabled the company to further empower its people to achieve their goals, bring together their talent and innovation through ownership and freedom to experiment, which has lead to growth and gains for both the individual and the company.

HCL has also taken up various benchmarking projects to improve upon HR processes and policies along with a regular organization wide Employee Engagement Survey, to gauge the employee engagement commitment level of people and take steps to build it further. Some of HCL’s HR programmes like ‘Learn from Leaders ’ and 360 Degree Feedback has helped facilitating continuous holistic quality improvement.

About HCL Infosystems Ltd:

HCL Infosystems Ltd, with revenue (LTM) of US $ 2.6 billion (Rs. 12,378 crores) is India’s premier information enabling and ICT System Integration company offering a wide spectrum of ICT products that includes Computing, Storage, Networking, Security, Telecom, Imaging and Retail. HCL is a one-stop-shop for all the ICT requirements of an organization. India’s leading System Integration and Infrastructure Management Services Organization, HCL has specialized expertise across verticals including Telecom, BFSI, E-Governance & Power. HCL has India’s largest distribution and retail network, taking to market a range of Digital Lifestyle products in partnership with leading global ICT brands, including Apple, Cisco, Ericsson, Kingston, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Microsoft, Nokia, Toshiba, and many more. HCL today has India’s largest vertically integrated computer manufacturing facility with over three decades of electronic manufacturing experience & HCL desktops is the largest selling brand into the enterprise space. With India’s largest ICT services network that reaches to every corner of India, HCL’s award winning Support Services makes it the preferred choice of enterprise and consumers alike. HCL Infosystems has a 100% subsidiary that addresses the physical security technology system integration market. The subsidiary leverages technology to build a security framework called “Safe State” that will safe guard life, infrastructure & society. For more information please visit us at www.hclinfosystems.in

About HCL:

HCL is a $5 billion leading global Technology and IT Enterprise that comprises two companies listed in India – HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India’s original IT garage start-ups, a pioneer of modern computing, and a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings spans Product Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team comprises over 60,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 23 countries including over 500 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more information, please visit www.hcl.in

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