Rising Attrition a Key Challenge across Industries
Talent Shortage is becoming a key challenge for companies across industries which is resulting in an increase in Attrition across organizations.
Technology Industry is No Exception
In its recently released results TCS highlighted an increase in attrition rate by over 300 bps at 11.9%, and the rise in sub-contracting costs.
Considering that TCS reports the leading attrition rates among Indian Technology Companies, other industry leaders which are expected to report even higher attrition rates this quarter.
Price Increase – A solution?
To manage the increased costs related to attrition including sub-contracting costs, retention costs, wage increases etc.; service providers are looking for price increases for their existing contracts.
Source: Everest
This increase varies across different functions with IT application development projects citing the highest increase of 10.6%.
With majority of the demand coming from digital transformation, service providers are using innovative ways to fund these initiatives which are targeted to deliver client savings.
They are also using financial engineering and gain sharing mechanisms to retain cost competitiveness as well as provider profitability.
Outlook
With the demand for digital transformation expected to remain strong in the short-to-medium term, talent shortage seems to be a challenge that will continue in the near-term, which makes price increases in contracts inevitable to keep the new age skills demand for the projects. In the medium term these talent pressures might ease as companies have already started working towards ways to reskill the existing talent as well as freshers.
Apart from price increase what else can the companies do to manage the Attrition? Stay tuned to know more in my next blog on NASSCOM Community “Winning the Talent Race”.
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Sources: Company Reports and Everest Group Webinar
