BENGALURU: Bengaluru has topped the list of the most popular location to work with respect to IT and ITeS (BPO) companies. The city houses the headquarters of nearly one-quarter (24 per cent) of the best workplaces this year, including Happiest Minds, Intuit, Cisco, Salesforce and EMC India.
The Great Place To Work Institute, which announced its second annual list of India’s Best Companies To Work For in IT & ITeS, 2016, said the city is base for 21 per cent of the companies assessed.
Bengaluru, Noida, Chennai, Mumbai and Gurugram account for 64 per cent of the study population, and over three-fourths (76 per cent) of the best companies in IT and ITeS sectors.
Overall, benefits, work-life balance and fair pay were found to be key to a superior employee experience based on findings relating to what the best IT and ITeS workplaces are doing to accelerate employee performance and engagement.
Adobe Systems India, Google India and Microsoft India are among the 50 Best IT and ITeS workplaces identified, based on a country-wide engagement survey of over 36,500 employees from 145 IT and ITeS companies.
The top 50 were identified based on an assessment of employee perceptions gauged using the engagement survey and an audit of company practices.
MNCs like Cisco Systems dominated the Top 50, with 47 per cent MNCs in the Best in IT and ITeS companies compared to just 20 per cent of non-MNCs making it to the list. Other key companies to be featured in the list include SAP India, Intel India and PayPal. Employees from MNCs express far more positive perceptions.
On the study this year, Prasenjit Bhattacharya, CEO, Great Place To Work Institute India, said, “In our survey this year, the IT & ITeS sector accounted for nearly one-third of the companies we studied across the Indian industry.”