TCS amongs world top hiring company in recession

In the time of melting economy and recession, Top American magazine Forbes has named Indian IT majors - Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and Infosys among the companies which are either hiring or laying off lesser number of employees. The three Indian entities along with the likes of UK retailer Tesco and Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia are part of the Forbes list titled 'Global 2000 Companies That Are Hiring'.
In addition to these five companies, UK's Compass Group, IT entity Accenture, Germany-based Metro AG, Mexico's Femsa and France-based Veolia Environment also feature in the list. TCS has about 1,30,000 employees whereas Wipro has a total employee strength of 97,000 and Infosys' has nearly 1,03,000 employees. TCS is ranked at the 834th position while Infosys is at the 891st place in the list of 2000 firms. Wipro has cornered the 989th spot.