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Wipro plans to re-hire laid off employees - Is it a right move?

Created by : Rajender Sharma, Senior Consultant, Softwell  | 11 10 2009 12:45:21 +0000
Industry : Human Resources (HR) ConsultingFunctional Area : Talent Management(People Management)
Keywords : employees wipro salary hikes additional skills re-hire
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WIPRO is planning to re-hire some of the employees it laid off last year since the tech major's involuntary attrition rate has gone up by two percentage points in the last 16 months. According to them, because of non-performance, they sacked the employees but they are now open to rehire some of them if they come back to with additional skill sets. They are saying, one-year window would have been enough for them to acquire some additional skills. They would also resume over 1,000 laterals during the fiscal and 1,000 freshers from campuses in January. The division, which recruited 1,000 people in the first six months of the fiscal, expects hiring numbers in the second half of the year to be more than double of that.

Wipro Infotech is planning to raise the ratio of its women employees from 13% now to 20% in the next two years. On salary hikes, the company had not budgeted a hike at the start of the fiscal but has decided to raise salaries in the fourth quarter across the board.

So, what do you think about this move taken by WIPRO? Is it right?

  
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Its PRIORITY basis. 

If the laid off employees are interested to go back to same place from where they were pushed then its EMPLOYEES own decision.

On the other hand if the laid off employee is still not having any other job offer in HAND then definitely can go back and join.

Its also good to see that atleast Companies are thinking about bringing back people who were laid off by themselves .
By C Nijagunaradhya, Planning engineer, Aarvee associates  11 11 2009 05:06:14 +0000
 
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I think thats good move from th company side. Both the party is at at a win win situation as the employee would not have to undego any further training et al and simmilarly company would save cost in T&D.
By Ravindra Kishore, MBA/PGDM student, JIMS- Rohini  | 02 06 2011 10:14:41 +0000
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I strogly support such kind of moves initiated by indian INCs.There are big navratnas i.e. ONGC,SAIL have already started this kind of move and it shows sucess rate was quite high.Many pople have turned back to thier previous company weather due to emotional attachement or due to having a kind of soft corner.But all in all it's welcomed by professionals.
By Raju Prasad, Methods Engineer/Operational Excellence ,ITT India Corporation Pvt. Ltd.  | 02 06 2011 09:54:16 +0000
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Yes, a best move to take back its own employee Company is doing right thing .
By deepanjana das, B.Tech in CS ,DBM, MBA-CFA student, ICFAI University  | 06 01 2010 07:04:18 +0000
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Yes, a good move to take back its own employee and giving higher preference than others
By Santosh Kumar, Product Technical Lead  | 06 01 2010 06:56:36 +0000
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Its is good to ask your laid-off employees to rejoin the company but may be they willn't like to join because they have lost there name and fame in the company, still it seems to be good from the company point of view as the company is either trying to compensate for its earlier decisions against the employees or the company is giving them a one more opportunity to work with them...
By Nitesh Kumar Singh, Business Development, Conserve Consultants Private Limited  | 06 01 2010 05:41:54 +0000
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It is a method of rearranging or regaining the companies assets. Due to the lack of understaning with thelimitted time frame either the company or an employee might take a decission to get out. With the sufficient leaning with the time both can gain to the greater extent.
By G.Ranga swamy, Vice President- Marketing (Solar), Electrotherm India Ltd  | 06 01 2010 04:18:09 +0000
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Its a very good and welcoming gesture from WIPRO. Its very nice of WIPRO management to make a public announcement of that.

It is the best example of WIN WIN scenario. Management gurus can develop a good case around it.

As it is WIPRO has a wonderful name. With this WIPRO will be the company of choice for every one.
By Raghu Kastury, Principal Consultant & Head of Strategic Business Unit - Retail & Distribution, Sundaram Infotech Solutions Limited  | 01 19 2010 18:54:48 +0000
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I it always good to rehire old employee because hey know company very well ,how company run.So company need not spend more time to train them about its company's cultural.And psychologically if we view it  when company call old employee it always benefited to company itself apart from not require to give training once again them also chances of good word of mouth that this company were not feeling well when it laid down the employee.So that is the reason it is calling them once again to compassionate with these days.   
By Ajjay upadhyaya, Marketing Manager, ISFC  | 01 10 2010 09:25:47 +0000
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it is good, now companies are thinking about their ex- employies but still it is up to them that whether they want to go back or not .
By Amit , Student, IIT Delhi  | 12 07 2009 16:06:13 +0000
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Yes definetly..........They are following some ethics!!!!!!!!!
By Akhil Gupta, Software Developer, SEL  | 12 07 2009 15:22:48 +0000
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Company is doing right thing .it shows that whether you are in the company or out side the company .Company will take care of you.As eventually company will also get benfit ,by not require to invest more time to train these employee because company might have invested more time to train them.And easy employee will adopt the enviroment of the company's.
By Ajjay upadhyaya, Marketing Manager, ISFC  | 12 07 2009 10:05:43 +0000
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since recession is over now...so its justified

 
By neha sodhi, B.Tech/B.E. student, MMEC Mullana  | 12 07 2009 05:45:39 +0000
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It is a good startegy, since the employee are well aware about the organization culture and ways of working, and for Wipro they know the actual worth of the employees. Thus it makes perfect sense to go for the employees laid-off in recent past. However, I expect the HR team will this time not recruit people in herds, but would invest considerable time and effort in chalking out plans before hiring people for each vacant post. Hiring and firing people is an option. When an organization has to lay-off people it exposes the poor management policy and leadership quality of an organization. 
By Arup Chakraborty, Managing Consultant  | 12 06 2009 20:07:41 +0000
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Good in general way but its all in terms of business so no good or bad.
By SUMEET DIKSHIT, Real Estate Transactions & Advisory, Real Estate  | 11 11 2009 16:56:50 +0000
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There is nothing wrong in it. Wipro is getting a lot of projects now a days in India and the Middle-East thus it needs lot of employees as fast as possible, also they need to cater the growing requirements of existing accounts. Just a few days back the company hired 200 people in Saudi Arabia and Egypt and is also hiring for its Global Service Management Centre in Mysore with almost five percent jobs earmarked for differently-abled people. So, when it requires so many employees, then what can be the best option than hiring the ones whom they once gave training. At least they needn't spend extra time and effort because of the new ones. Furthermore, if the same employees are coming up with new skill sets, it is good for WIPRO only.
By Rajender Sharma, Senior Consultant, Softwell  | 11 10 2009 12:52:10 +0000
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I feel its " No". How fare we can expect a man management or a E-E relationship there. When the company shake, the employee lose his all the good name and confident about the company. So if they reenter the company, the ll not much satisfactory about the work, and definitly have the feel of " Once again layoff".

In another point of view, its a chance for them to prove the place, but how sportive we are is a question mark again.
By Dhesihan S, Executive - HR, East coast construction & Industries ltd  | 12 07 2009 06:19:22 +0000
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When they fired employees stating non performance, then what is the point in them rehiring the same the so called "non performing employees" whom they fired.  

It simply means that they had given lame excuse of non performance to fire them.  If they stand by their statement, then why do they need the same non-performers again?

Coming to the matter of "Additional Skills", this is a typical business polish language.  

Performance is what you deliver, not what you know.  So irrespective of how much more skills they (non performers) acquire, they are going to deliver the same.
By Rijo Stephen Cletus, Business Analyst / Consultant for IT, Hospitals and Healthcare Sector  | 11 11 2009 18:22:36 +0000
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I don't think its an intelligent idea. They were sacked out for low performance. They may have knowledge but what if they are unable to perform? Chance cannot be taken again. Its the loss of time and opportunity to get more talented employees. Moreover, in the past one year, if they studied new skills but lost touch from their old one's then ?
By Nikhil Jain, Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates  | 11 10 2009 12:54:07 +0000
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