Salil Parekh
Chief executive officer of Infosys.
Salil Parekh, chief executive of Infosys, reported 328,062 staff at 30 June 2026, down 532 on the quarter but up 4,274 on the year, as the company hired over 4,000 campus graduates without attributing headcount to AI.
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Salil Parekh is chief executive of Infosys, India's second-largest IT services company.
Reporting results on 23 July 2026, he framed a quarter of cautious client spending even as those same clients invest heavily in AI, and trimmed the top of Infosys's full-year revenue outlook citing macroeconomic uncertainty . Infosys reported 328,062 staff at 30 June, down 532 on the quarter but up 4,274 on the year, hired more than 4,000 campus graduates and reaffirmed a 20,000 target for the financial year.
Parekh did not attribute the headcount change to automation. Alongside TCS's steeper cuts and Wipro's zero-fresher pledge, Infosys is absorbing AI through attrition and campus hiring rather than layoffs.
Parekh held headcount through hiring
Salil Parekh, chief executive of Infosys, India's second-largest IT services company, reported results on 23 July 2026 showing 328,062 staff at 30 June, down 532 on the quarter but up 4,274 on the year, with attrition rising to 13% from 12.6% .
He framed the quarter around cautious client spending even as those same clients invest heavily in AI, and trimmed the top of Infosys's full-year revenue outlook citing macroeconomic uncertainty. Parekh did not attribute the headcount change to automation, hiring more than 4,000 campus graduates in the quarter and reaffirming a 20,000 target for the financial year.