{"id":2498932,"date":"2025-04-13T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2498932\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:52:25","slug":"infosys-skill-shortage-hurts-hiring-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2498932\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys: Skill shortage hurts hiring in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"A MAN WALKS PAST A BILLBOARD OF INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE IN BANGALORE.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man walks past a billboard of Infosys Technologies Ltd&#8217;s office in Bangalore October 10, 2003. REUTERS\/Jagadeesh\/Files<\/p>\n<p>By Kelvin Soh<\/p>\n<p>DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) &#8211; Infosys, India&#8217;s second largest software services exporter, aims to expand its workforce in Europe, but is having trouble finding the computer science graduates it needs, the head of its European operations said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biggest problem for us with regard to hiring is that there aren&#8217;t enough people who want to study computer science in Europe and the UK,&#8221; said B. G. Srinivas, head of European operations at Infosys .<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Srinivas said the company aims to expand its European workforce by 10 percent, adding 5,500 employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had to hire maths and science graduates,&#8221; said Srinivas. &#8220;If we hired only computer science graduates, I&#8217;d be looking at a very small talent pool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Infosys competes with companies such as Accenture Plc  and IBM  for orders to maintain information technology infrastructure and build software applications for corporate clients.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, spending on information technology is expected to rise 3.7 percent this year, its slowest pace in 3 years, research firm Gartner said earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__extra_small__1Mw6v body__full_width__ekUdw body__extra_small_body__3QTYe sign-off__text__PU3Aj\">Reporting by Kelvin Soh; Editing by Peter Graff; For full Reuters coverage from Davos, go to www.reuters.com\/davos<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__element__2p5pI article-body__trust-badge__D_brm\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man walks past a billboard of Infosys Technologies Ltd&#8217;s office in Bangalore October 10, 2003. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2498933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389806],"tags":[764350,114390,762715,762700,4626,188914,762783,69026,763018,763028,170696,762733,7293,2482],"class_list":{"0":"post-2498932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-bsup","9":"tag-bus","10":"tag-cmpny","11":"tag-emrg","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-ezc","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-itse","17":"tag-swit","18":"tag-tech","19":"tag-weu","20":"tag-7293","21":"tag-2482"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114331225021596613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2498933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}