HCL Infosystems Ltd, India?s premier information enabling ICT System Integration Company bagged the No. 1 spot in the DQ:IDC Best Employer Survey 2009. The 9th annual survey conducted jointly by CyberMedia’s flagship publication Dataquest and IDC is a comprehensive report on the Human Resources initiatives in the Indian IT companies, conducted in seven cities of India,.

Having featured in the top three list in this annual survey for four years consecutively, taking the number one spot this year could be credited to a number of path breaking employee centric initiatives taken during the year including introduction of unique employee benefit & skill enhancement programmes coupled with a state of the art career planning initiatives.

Culled from India’s extensive IT industry, the Top 20 Best IT Employers are chosen based on 11 parameters, five from the HR survey and six from the employee survey. This year the survey was conducted in 31 Indian IT companies with 2,935 employees. Out of this, 20 were short listed based on the employee strength, average tenure, average training, attrition rate, retention rate, proportion of promotions granted, cost to company, ratio of the fixed component in the salary and the male to female ratio.

Commenting on the occasion Mr. J.V. Ramamurthy, COO, HCL Infosystems Ltd said,? We at HCL are very delighted to win the Best Employer Award ?09. For years, HCL Infosystems has been the only ICT products company in the BES Top10 club, and this year too we lived up to our image continuing to be the No 1 dream company?.

According to Mr. Vivek Punekar, VP, HR, HCL Infosystems said ?over the years our focus has been on creating a learning organization, encourage entrepreneurship, nurture talent and introduce multi-dimensional training programmes that will help to improve the learning curve of our employees. This award certainly recognizes our efforts in employee development and ensuring a progressive work environment.?

HCL Infosystems? unique HR philosophy of ?Recruiting, Rewarding and Retaining the Best?, along with a number of innovative measures has enabled the company to further empower its people to achieve their goals, bring together their talent and innovation through ownership and freedom to experiment, which has lead to growth and gains for both the individual and the company.

HCL has also taken up various benchmarking projects to improve upon HR processes and policies along with a regular organization wide Employee Engagement Survey, to gauge the employee engagement commitment level of people and take steps to build it further. Some of HCL?s HR programmes like ?Learn from Leaders ? and 360 Degree Feedback has helped facilitating continuous holistic quality improvement.