IT services major HCL Technologies is engaging closely with clients to prioritise work and shift some workload from India to other geographies to ensure business continuity as the country grapples with record Covid cases.

The company, which expects its 2021-22 revenues to clock double-digit growth in constant currency, is also ramping up its efforts to ensure employees and their families get access to necessary health services amid the second wave of the pandemic.

HCL Technologies president and CEO C. Vijayakumar said the company is working with clients to prioritise work.

“We have a global organisation. We already have almost 30 per cent of our workforces present outside India. Some geographies have stabilised and their vaccination levels are very high, so they are taking a little more load. Everybody’s very understanding.... including clients and our employees in other geographies,” he added.

The company hopes the situation will start to moderate over the next couple of weeks.

“Clients are very understanding and supportive. And we are working with them to see how, if there is a shortfall of people in certain operations, what can we do to offset that, how can we prioritise some work over the other... very active conversations happen on a continuous basis,” Vijayakumar said.

HCL’s total headcount stood at 1,68,977 at the end of the March quarter with attrition at 9.9 per cent.

The company intends to hire about 20,000 freshers in 2021-22.