{"id":1145,"date":"2014-05-19T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/decoding_tcs_profitability_051814\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:01:00","slug":"decoding_tcs_profitability_051814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/decoding_tcs_profitability_051814\/","title":{"rendered":"Defying disruption, or a ticking HR time-bomb? How TCS reduces its average cost per employee by 6.3% each year"},"content":{"rendered":"
When we recently calculated the profit margins of top IT service providers in our HfS IT Services Top 10<\/a>,\u00a0it was very apparent\u00a0that TCS enjoys the highest profit margin, by a considerable distance, of 28.4% among the top 10 global IT services providers and also among the leading offshore centric IT service firms. Hence, not only does TCS enjoy the highest revenue growth in the IT services industry, it is also the most profitable – so what’s the secret sauce?<\/p>\n In a world where there is constant downward pressure on services pricing and there is increasingly availability of disruptive alternatives<\/a> that should begin drive down the reliance on an FTE-based delivery model, how – on earth – does TCS do it? \u00a0So we asked HfS Principle Analyst Pareekh Jain<\/a>, to take a deeper look, and it was quickly apparent that the firm has increased its proportion of “freshers” (recent college grads) has increased from 50% to 80% since 2007:<\/p>\n