HCL Technologies to attract talent in Sri Lanka
India’s HCL Technologies (HCL), the US$10 billion global technology company, aims to attract a lot more Sri Lankan talent in proportion to its expansion plans in Sri Lanka, officials said.
“We want to staff 5000 employees in say five years, but we are hoping it will be before that. This year we cross the 1000- employee milestone,” said Prateek Aggarwal, Chief Financial Officer – HCL Technologies in an interview with the Business Times last week.
Having opened the new facility at the Cinnamon Life complex recently HCL aims to occupy 80 per cent of Cinnamon Life, with plans of taking up 10 floors now and 10 floors at a later stage. “Sri Lanka is one of HCL’s key global delivery hubs and we are very excited to continue expanding our operations in the country with the opening of our new office here,” Mr. Aggarwal added. He pointed out that a year after entering Sri Lanka the company plans to make it a global technology and IT services delivery hub for some of the biggest global businesses.
Upbeat about the Sri Lankan workforce, he said the company has bigger plans for those employees who have passed the A/L examination for forging their education. “We want to give them scholarships for higher education going forward. They shouldn’t feel that because of that update they didn’t get the chance to have a university degree. We are working with IIT and Horizon College in Sri Lanka in this regard.”
He added that the company will provide continuous training and skilling to the workforce.
HCL offers its services and products across three business units: IT and Business Services (ITBS), Engineering and R&D Services (ERS), and Products & Platforms (P&P), said Srimathi Shivashankar, Corporate Vice President, HCL Technologies. “With Cinnamon Life’s strategic location at the heart of Colombo, this iconic signature structure reflects on HCL as a next-generation global technology company that constantly reimagines business for a digital age.”
HCL empowers global enterprises with technology for the next decade, with its Mode 1-2-3 strategy, based on its deep-domain industry expertise, client-centricity, and entrepreneurial culture of ideapreneurship™, empowering businesses to transform into next-gen enterprises, she added.
She said that HCL has large engagements with tech-based companies such as Cisco, Airbus, MunichRe, BP, and McLaren Health enabling these global enterprises to transform their businesses through offerings in applications, infrastructure, digital process operations, and next-generation digital transformation solutions while tendering engineering services and solutions in all facets of product development and platform engineering.
The 49-year-old company has more than 187,000 ideapreneurs operating out of 50 countries, she added noting that it is delightful to notice many such ideapreneurs in the Sri Lankan office as well.
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