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Cognizant says 400 top executives accepted voluntary severance package, co to save $60 mn annually

Press Trust of India • August 7, 2017, 08:06:58 IST
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In May, the company had initiated a voluntary separation programme, offering up to nine months of salary as part of it to some of its top-level executives in the US and India.

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Cognizant says 400 top executives accepted voluntary severance package, co to save $60 mn annually

New Delhi: About 400 senior executives of Cognizant have accepted the company’s voluntary separation package (VSP), a move that the US-based company said will help it save about US $60 million annually. In May, the company had initiated a voluntary separation programme, offering up to nine months of salary as part of it to some of its top-level executives in the US and India. Cognizant has a significant chunk of its total 2.56 lakh workforce in India and it is estimated that of the 400 people who opted for the separation, a large number could be from India. However, the company did not disclose the number of Indian executives who have accepted the offer. “Of the US $39 million of realignment charges, US $35 million was for the roughly 400 associates who accepted our VSP. We expect approximately US $60 million of annualised savings as a result of the VSP,” Cognizant CFO Karen McLoughlin said at a recent investor call. McLoughlin added that Cognizant expects to incur additional cost-related to advisory fees, severance, lease termination, and facility consolidation costs in the remaining part of 2017. [caption id=“attachment_302112” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![Reuters](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/cognizant1.jpg) Reuters[/caption] She said the company has also made “good headway” in the June quarter driving utilisation rates higher by “slowing the pace of our hiring and improving resource alignment” to its re-skilling and multi-skilling programmes. She explained that these “adjustments” will help improve the company’s profitability. Cognizant’s overall headcount decreased by about 4,400 people at the end of June from March 2017 quarter, even though it had hired 10,800 people (gross) during the June quarter. “Our attrition level was higher than normal given reductions resulting from performance evaluations and the voluntary separation programme,” McLoughlin said. She added that while the company will carefully manage headcount, it will continue to hire and invest in critical skills needed to grow Cognizant’s digital business. The annualised attrition rate for Cognizant stood at 23.6 percent, including business process outsourcing (BPO) and trainees, during the June quarter from 17.1 percent in the year-ago period. “… we expect attrition to decline in the coming months,” she said. The over US $13 billion-Cognizant has also raised the lower end of its revenue outlook for the year and now expects its topline to grow 9-10 percent, instead of 8-10 percent growth expected earlier. This confidence, it said, is based on the “strong first-half results” that were driven by robust growth in verticals like healthcare and digital services. Cognizant President Rajeev Mehta said the company is investing “tens of millions of dollars” this year to continuously deepen and broaden skills in areas like analytics, artificial intelligence, data science, and digital security.

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