New Delhi, May 9 -- Backend technology centres of the world's largest companies are increasingly hiring senior executives from peers as compared with information technology (IT) services companies, indicating a preference for innovative work, domain knowledge and better understanding of captive offices.

A little over a third-or 36%-of executives with more than eight years of work experience hired by global capacity centres or GCCs came from rivals in the year ended March 2025, according to a report by Xpheno, a Pune-based staffing firm. That's an increase from 28% in the year March 2023. By comparison, the share of middle and senior executives hired from the IT services sector during the period shrank from 50% to 40%.

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