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title: "Wipro’s headcount down 1,157 in Q3, ends quarter with 232,732 employees"
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description: "Wipro's headcount decreased by 1,157 in Q3, ending with 232,732 employees, marking a shift from previous quarters of growth. The company is reassessing its hiring strategies to enhance employee utilization and improve margins amid a rising attrition rate of 15.3%, up from 14.5% in Q2. Year-over-year, Wipro has 6,923 fewer employees. In Q2, Wipro onboarded 2,500-3,000 freshers, following 3,000 in the June quarter."
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# Wipro’s headcount down 1,157 in Q3, ends quarter with 232,732 employees

Information technology (IT) services major Wipro’s headcount decreased by 1,157 in the third quarter, reversing two consecutive quarters of employee additions.

The development comes at a time when the Bengaluru-based company is reassessing its lateral and campus hiring models to focus on improving utilisation rate of employees amid lowering attrition, to grow margins.

The company had 2,32,732 employees at the end of the quarter, 6,923 fewer the year-ago period.

Sequentially, Wipro's attrition rate increased to 15.3 percent in the last-twelve-month (LTM) basis. In Q2, the attrition rate was 14.5 percent.

Wipro on boarded over 2,500-3,000 freshers in the second quarter. It onboarded 3,000 freshers in the June quarter.

(This is a developing story, please check back for updates)

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