Wipro Onboarding Delay: 250 Engineering Graduates Affected

Global IT company Wipro has been accused in a letter to the labour and employment ministry by the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES). Wipro is accused by NITES of postponing the onboarding of roughly 250 engineering graduates despite the company's formal contact and offer letter guarantees. In May of last year, the graduates received a letter of intent confirming their selection and outlining the position, pay scale, and onboarding procedure. In many instances, the business also sent out official onboarding communications verifying the completion of documentation requirements, a joining date, and a work location. Let us just explore the recent developments.

What Does NITES’s Letter State Against Wipro?

According to NITES, the staff were not onboarded on the specified dates in spite of these official assurances. According to the letter, the impacted candidates regularly contacted the business over a number of months. Graduates enquired about their onboarding progress through formal emails, phone conversations, and written representations. They either never heard back from anyone or got ambiguous, automated answers that made references to business demands, upcoming batches, or unmet deadlines.

To date, no official cancellation, confirmed onboarding date, or written explanation has been provided. Similar circumstances occurred at TCS last year, when the biggest provider of IT services in India postponed the onboarding of over 600 seasoned workers. At that time, NITES asked the ministry to step in and make sure TCS formally and promptly commits to onboarding the impacted lateral hires. Further, NITES asked TCS to compensate them for the time that onboarding has been delayed and looked into other appropriate roles for these professionals within the company.

Slow Hiring Culture Getting Popular Among IT Firms

Due to a lack of demand and a difficult macroeconomic climate, IT companies have been hiring slowly for a long time. The top five companies' combined personnel additions decreased by 4,541 during the third quarter.

Additionally, hiring of recent graduates has been modest. Wipro stated that it will finish the fiscal year with roughly 8,000 additional jobs, down from its initial target of 10,000, after hiring just 400 in the quarter that concluded in December. According to NITES, the government should instruct the business to provide all impacted candidates with explicit written choices, either by confirming onboarding schedules within a specified timeframe or by offering a justified closure to prevent their careers from being suspended indefinitely.