Chennai: Tata Consultancy Services retained its top position as the best IT employer in India, while software major Wipro figured nowhere among the Top 20 list, as per a survey by industry analysts.
While HCL Infosystems, iGate, RMSI and Synechron occupied the next four slots after TCS, Infosys slipped four places to the eight position, according to an annual survey done by Cybermedia's flagship publication Dataquest in collaboration with IDC India.
The seventh annual Dataquest-IDC survey was participated by 2,844 software, hardware and marketing professionals from 33 IT companies, totally employing 3,04,834 people in seven cities. The rating of employers was done upon the basis of employee satisfaction and HR scores.
IBM was rated the sixth best employer, followed by Capgemini, Infosys, Tavant Technologies and Sun Microsystems. According to the survey, TCS, with a large workforce based in foreign shores, followed innovative HR practices and maintained ethos across geographies to achieve consistency in workforce.
The employees of HCL Infosystems were found to be satisfied with the growth opportunities, job security and relationship with peers in the company.
According to Pradeep Gupta, publisher of Cybermedia, multinational employers IBM, Capgemini, Sun Microsystems and CSC have mastered the art of managing Indian employees to rank among the Top 20 best IT employers in the country.
"Others, especially many India-based IT employers, need to balance aggressive recruitment with the warmth and personal touch... to retain people as they ramp up headcount."
According to the survey, the average attrition rate was marginally down to 14 per cent from last year's 15 per cent.
As far as job satisfaction was concerned, the employees voted career development and opportunities, work-life balance, organisational culture, job security and technology as the top five concerns. Though compensation was the top reason for job
change, it ranked only seventh in the job satisfaction criteria.
Infosys remained the top 'dream company' as voted by one-10th of the total participants, closely followed by TCS and IBM. In terms of 'Company Image' and 'Organisation culture', HCL Infosystems ranked first followed by RMSI, iGate and Tavant Technologies.
Infosys was among those who scored the lowest points in this regard. It was evident that the smaller companies enjoyed a better organisation culture, as per the survey.
The number of women employees in the surveyed IT companies have slightly improved than last year, with the fairer sex constituting 23.7 per cent of the workforce. As per 2006 survey, 23.6 per cent of the workforce were women.
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