India, April 14 -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is reportedly in the process of hiring around 42,000 trainees for the financial year 2025-26, similar to the company's hires in 2024-25.

On top of this, TCS Executive Vice President (EVP) and CHRO Milind Lakkad said that the IT giant rolled out 1.1 lakh promotions in 2024-25, though it deferred its annual increments, according to a Times of India report.

"Last year, we hired 40 per cent digital hires compared to 17 per cent the year before that," the report quoted Lakkad as saying. "For the four quarters, we had 13 per cent attrition on the employee base we have. And we would need people for growth and for back-filling that attrition."

He added that "this (promotions) is a good way to ...