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IT公司着眼于小城镇以扩大人才基础
分析师表示，越来越多的公司正在利用这些地区的资源，因为这里有更多的人才、更低的成本和流失率。
班加罗尔/孟买:IT服务提供商埃森哲咨询公司公司,科技马辛德拉，HCL科技公司而且Mindtree等公司正在向二级和三级地区扩张，以应对前所未有的人才短缺。
该公司表示，埃森哲正在斋浦尔、印多尔和哥印拜陀设立中心，并扩大其在艾哈迈达巴德的现有业务。
澳大利亚第三大软件公司HCL Technologies表示，“扎根”和“回家”等活动在其位于小城市的中心培养和培养人才方面发挥了重要作用。
像Mindtree这样的中型公司，ZensarLarsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI)也在追随规模较大的同行深入小城镇。
分析师表示，越来越多的公司正在利用这些地区的资源，因为这里有更多的人才、更低的成本和流失率。
他们补充说，相当一部分来自小城镇的员工在新冠肺炎疫情后不愿回到大城市。
“印度是埃森哲重要的人才和创新中心……(这些中心将)为我们的员工提供工作选择，满足他们对灵活工作和面对面联系的需求，”埃森哲高级董事总经理兼印度先进技术中心负责人Mahesh Zurale告诉《印度经济时报》，“新地点不仅将加强我们已经丰富多样的人才基础，还将为当地人才提供建立有意义职业生涯的机会。”
HCL Tech在勒克瑙、马杜赖和维杰亚瓦达设有交付中心，这是其“新远景”战略的一部分
与其他大都市地区相比，这里拥有丰富的人才和更好的生活质量，这是人们搬到这些地区的主要原因。
“像‘扎根’(Stay roots)和‘回家’(Come Back Home)这样的活动，旨在为在家乡的人们提供全球就业机会，而‘回家’(Come Back Home)则为人们返回城市并继续追求全球职业生涯提供了途径，这些活动都起到了重要作用
在我们的新远景地区培养和培养人才，”HCL Tech的一位发言人告诉ET。
全球首席人力资源官兼营销主管Harshvendra Soin表示，除了对劳动力进行再培训和雇佣精通利基技术的专业人士外，Tech Mahindra还一直在扩大业务，从二线和三线城镇招聘人才，以挖掘新的人才。
外包顾问、公司创始人帕利克•贾恩(parekh Jain)表示，在疫情大流行之前，企业建立这些中心的一个原因是削减成本和使人才库多样化Pareekh咨询．
他说:“现在，主要原因是为疫情后不想回到总部的员工提供便利，同时挖掘当地人才，由于这些地方缺乏有竞争力的雇主，这些人才对公司的粘性可能会稍长一些。”
贾恩补充说，卡纳塔克邦、泰伦加纳邦、西孟加拉邦和其他地方为IT服务提供商在小城市建立校园提供了许多激励措施。
分析人士称，企业正在二级和三级地点开设容量为100至200个座位的“卫星中心”，让员工每周见面一次。
印澳协议为印度IT公司打了一针强心针
印度和澳大利亚周六签署了一项经济合作与贸易协定，寻求在未来五年内将双边贸易额从目前的270亿美元增加近一倍，达到450亿至500亿美元。它还放宽了两国之间合作和人才共享的规范。
当地的大学
顶尖学院和大学也在影响企业选择这些地点。
例如，Mindtree今年3月在加尔各答成立了首个开发中心。
该公司正在积极增加在该市的团队，并预计在下一个财政年度将员工人数增加一倍。
Mindtree首席执行官Debasish Chatterjee此前告诉《经济时报》，除了印度统计研究所，这座城市在工程学院和管理学院方面有很好的人才来源。另一家中型IT公司Zensar最近也在该市建立了一个配送中心。
“加尔各答的优势在于，除了工程人才，你还有统计思维，这对这项工作来说是非常独特的
我们现在在数据和分析方面所做的工作，”查特吉说。
同样，去年12月在海得拉巴开设了一个拥有3000个座位的配送中心的LTI，与印度商学院(Indian School of Business)签署了一份谅解备忘录，以开展数字化准备工作的研究。
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<\/figure>By Sai Ishwarbharath & Romita Majumdar<\/strong>Bengaluru\/Mumbai: IT service providers such as Accenture<\/a> Inc, Tech Mahindra<\/a>, HCL Technologies<\/a> and Mindtree<\/a>, among others, are expanding to tier II and tier III locations as they battle an unprecedented talent crunch.
Accenture is setting up centres in Jaipur, Indore and Coimbatore, and expanding its existing presence in Ahmedabad, the company said.
<\/div><\/div>Tech Mahindra has over the last two quarters ramped up hiring for its centres in Thiruvananthapuram, Vizag, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Indore, Vijayawada and Coimbatore.
HCL Technologies, the country\u2019s third largest software firm, said campaigns like Stay Rooted and Come Back Home have been instrumental in growing and nurturing talent at its centres in small cities.
Mid-tier firms like Mindtree, Zensar<\/a> and Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) are also following larger peers in going deeper into small towns.
An increasing number of companies are tapping resources at these locations due to greater availability of talent, lower cost and attrition rates, analysts said.
Quite a few employees hailing from small towns do not want to return to big cities post-Covid-19, they added.
\u201cIndia is a key talent and innovation hub for Accenture\u2026 (These centres will) provide our people with work options that fulfil their need for flexible working, and in-person connections,\u201d Mahesh Zurale, senior managing director and lead of Accenture\u2019s advanced technology centres in India, told ET. \u201cThe new locations will not only strengthen our already rich and diverse talent base, but also provide local talent with the opportunity to build meaningful careers.\u201d
HCL Technologies, the country\u2019s third largest software firm, said campaigns like Stay Rooted and Come Back Home have been instrumental in growing and nurturing talent at its centres in small cities.
Mid-tier firms like Mindtree, Zensar<\/a> and Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI) are also following larger peers in going deeper into small towns.
An increasing number of companies are tapping resources at these locations due to greater availability of talent, lower cost and attrition rates, analysts said.
Quite a few employees hailing from small towns do not want to return to big cities post-Covid-19, they added.
\u201cIndia is a key talent and innovation hub for Accenture\u2026 (These centres will) provide our people with work options that fulfil their need for flexible working, and in-person connections,\u201d Mahesh Zurale, senior managing director and lead of Accenture\u2019s advanced technology centres in India, told ET. \u201cThe new locations will not only strengthen our already rich and diverse talent base, but also provide local talent with the opportunity to build meaningful careers.\u201d
<\/div><\/div>The US-based company, whose largest employee base is in India, has been hiring for specialised areas such as digital, cloud, security, data and artificial intelligence from these locations.
HCL Tech, which has delivery centres in Lucknow, Madurai, and Vijayawada as part of its \u2018New Vistas\u2019 strategy, said the
availability of abundant talent and better quality of life compared to other metro locations, were the main reasons to move into such locations.
\u201cCampaigns like Stay Rooted\u2013 which aims to provide global career opportunities to people in their hometowns, and Come Back Home \u2013 which provided avenues to people to return to their cities and still pursue global careers, were instrumental in
growing and nurturing talent in our New Vistas locations,\u201d a spokesperson for HCL Tech told ET.
Apart from reskilling the workforce and hiring professionals skilled in niche technologies, Tech Mahindra has also been ramping up its presence and hiring from tier-II and tier-III towns to tap into new talent, said Harshvendra Soin, global chief people officer and head of marketing.
Before the pandemic, one reason why companies set up these centres was to cut costs and diversify the talent pool, said Pareekh Jain, an outsourcing advisor and founder of Pareekh Consulting<\/a>.
\u201cNow, the main reasons are to facilitate employees who don\u2019t want to return to their base locations after the pandemic and also tap into local talent whose stickiness to the company may be slightly longer due to lack of competitive employers in those locations,\u201d he said.
Karnataka, Telangana, West Bengal and others are providing many incentives to IT service providers to establish campuses in smaller cities, Jain added.
Companies are opening \u2018satellite centres\u2019 of 100-200-seater capacity in tier II and III locations to make employees meet once a week, analysts said.
HCL Tech, which has delivery centres in Lucknow, Madurai, and Vijayawada as part of its \u2018New Vistas\u2019 strategy, said the
availability of abundant talent and better quality of life compared to other metro locations, were the main reasons to move into such locations.
\u201cCampaigns like Stay Rooted\u2013 which aims to provide global career opportunities to people in their hometowns, and Come Back Home \u2013 which provided avenues to people to return to their cities and still pursue global careers, were instrumental in
growing and nurturing talent in our New Vistas locations,\u201d a spokesperson for HCL Tech told ET.
Apart from reskilling the workforce and hiring professionals skilled in niche technologies, Tech Mahindra has also been ramping up its presence and hiring from tier-II and tier-III towns to tap into new talent, said Harshvendra Soin, global chief people officer and head of marketing.
Before the pandemic, one reason why companies set up these centres was to cut costs and diversify the talent pool, said Pareekh Jain, an outsourcing advisor and founder of Pareekh Consulting<\/a>.
\u201cNow, the main reasons are to facilitate employees who don\u2019t want to return to their base locations after the pandemic and also tap into local talent whose stickiness to the company may be slightly longer due to lack of competitive employers in those locations,\u201d he said.
Karnataka, Telangana, West Bengal and others are providing many incentives to IT service providers to establish campuses in smaller cities, Jain added.
Companies are opening \u2018satellite centres\u2019 of 100-200-seater capacity in tier II and III locations to make employees meet once a week, analysts said.