New Openings and Layoff news from India - Dec 18th: Update

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TCS to honor hiring commitment, says no "pink slips"
Hyderabad - India's largest tech firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it would honor all employment offers made to college graduates and had no plans to hand over "pink slips" to current employees despite the ongoing global economic slowdown.

Accenture Profit Rises 26% on Outsourcing Demand
Accenture Ltd., the world’s second- largest technology-consulting firm, said first-quarter profit rose 26 percent after the company won more outsourcing contracts.

Telesoft sets up telecom lab in India
New Delhi: Telesoft Technologies, a UK based provider of reliable and cost-effective Telecommunications, Monitoring, Homeland Security and Intelligence solutions, has announced the opening of its telecom laboratory in India to assist integration and roll out of new partner products in the region. The lab has Telesoft's complete range of products allowing local customers to quickly integrate and test software applications and ensure network compatibility in real world conditions.

Stanford sees huge opportunity in India
Bangalore: "The transformation of 'call-centers' into 'data-centers' and then into 'data-center hubs' would become an eventuality in the years to come," says Balaji Prabhakar, Associate Professor, Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University. Identifying India to be the next potential hub, the 10 eminent professors from Stanford provoked thoughts of techies on innovation and research developments at 'The Stanford Engineering Symposium - India', organized in association with SiliconIndia here today. Click here for complete story.

HCL Technologies completes Axon acquisition, becomes major global SAP player
New Delhi - Tech major HCL Technologies Ltd said it has successfully completed the acquisition of UK-based SAP consulting firm Axon Group Plc. (Axon) in a £441.1 million all-cash deal and has merged the HCL SAP practice under Axon leadership.

Layoffs in India
Hexaware - firing senior people
Source: post from a reader
Every friday evening between 5 pm to 6 pm at least 4 senior members get a call from HR manager. A resignation letter is kept ready in front and is asked to sign. Absolutely no notice given. Within a minute you lose all access and you are jobless. No room for gratitude… no respect for the hardwork earned from the employee. The act is like taking disciplinary action against the employee. Imagine…. if this is happening to someone who had spent more than 10 years who was treated like a king when his skill was requried for the growth of the company. The new CEO who has joined Hexaware from Wipro is axing people like he is cutting trees from his garden.

After Wipro, he has come to Hexaware that ranked 6th in Best employer survey - DQ in 2006. For him Employees are commodities not human resource with blood and Flesh.

Six months back there were 2 rounds of layoffs when the IT slow down started due to which there were heavy attrition and the company lost all good resources. To stop this further the top management wanted to spread a positive message and convened to the middle management that there will not be anymore layoffs. They were trying to kind of justify why it happened. However behind the screen they are axing people silently but cruelly

Motorola issues pink slips to 100 employees in India
Mumbai/New Delhi: US mobile phones maker Motorola is learned to have issued pink slips to at least 100 of its 4,000 employees in India.

Flurry of top-level exits in Satyam
NEW DELHI: Satyam Computer Services had seen a flurry of top-level exits in it’s IT and BPO businesses, including Satyam head of strategy Shailesh Shah, before the Maytas buyout decision was taken on Tuesday. In September, Venkatesh Roddam, the CEO of Satyam BPO, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Satyam, put in his papers.