Siva & I along with few of my other friends had a long discussion a year ago on Best Companies to Work for in India - Business Today Survey. It is that time of the year again. Business Today's recent edition carried the same survey for this year.
Last 6 years of this survey Infosys topped 4 times (in years 2001, 2002, 2005 & 2006) and secured 2nd position in year 2004. In this year's survey Infosys fell down to 5th position.
Survey has analyzed a little bit on why Infosys fell as well. Few reasons are given as growing scale (in total employee count), inadequate communication, slow promotions etc.
I could infer from the people who have spent long time at Infosys on how the company has transformed so much from the old days to what it is now in terms of employee friendliness. Company took hardly three years to grow from 30000 plus employees to 80000 plus employees. Survey results show that company has not coped up well with the size. Had it been a slow and steady growth, guess it would have been easier to manage the employee expectations.
Microsoft India has come as the #1 in the survey. Total employee count is 5000 plus.
Other positions and the total employees strength in the bracket.
2nd MindTree Consulting (5500)
3rd Johnson & Johnson (404)
4th Sapient (3500)
Size does matter...!!!
11 comments:
Very True Seeni...
I totally Agree with you.
Is this survey really matters? How far this is going to impact companies that are not in the top10/15.? Money is what matters srini...
The musical chair in the top tier management of Infosys is probably not helping the employee confidence too. How many CEOs in the past 4 years ? Three ?
@ Vinodh - Thanks for your comment.
@ Saravana
Definitely it matters. It matters in many ways.
To quote just a few:
1. Topping such surveys would help the organisation to woo the customers (especially for new wins)
2. Topping such surveys would improve the image and attract more talents. Infy's brand equity has brought 1.3 million job applications from aspirants last year. May be this fall might affect this count. (everyone would want to work for the best place to work for ain't it?)
3. Topping such surveys would help to get the investors' confidence, resulting in more investors, good liquidity of shares, increasing demand for shares & upward price movement...
@ Siva
I think the musical chair is still not over. In just a very few years down the line again the leadership change would happen. Looking at the way Mohandas Pai is getting rotated (from Finance to HR), I think, in a few years he would wear the crown. I think all these are being done in a hurry(!) to prove that there is no invisible glass ceiling to reach at the top of Infy for people other than the promoters.
Disclaimer: All these are my views only. There is no solid backing of any of these. No harm intended to anyone.
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Nandavanathil Ore Andy !
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@ Arasan
Not sure what you are trying to convey.
Nothing ! Just like that... :)-
What ever becomes BIG.... that becomes UNmanagable...
Growth (in size) wil be encouraging...but in a quite long time we will realize it is out of control. Last time I noticed with growth of my Tummy... it stays true for Corporate even (needlessly the company you quoted).
When Crowd becomes big... to reach the messgae u say, you got to be LOUDER. PPL who can pronounce Louder are Leaders...
I think that is the reason for this Fall... Lack/Absence of stable leader???
what say?
@ Praveen
Rather I would say big is tough to manage than completely unmanageble. Soon the company would learn.
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