Wipro employee strength fell by 6,716 quarter-on-quarter to 2.36 lakh in the September quarter of FY27. The company reported that its total headcount dropped 2.8 per cent sequentially. Meanwhile, the voluntary attrition rate stayed steady at 13.8 per cent. Net utilisation also fell to 83.4 per cent during this period.
Wipro reported a decline in its employee headcount in the September quarter of the current financial year, with the total number of employees falling 2.4 per cent year-on-year (YoY) and 2.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ).
The IT services company had 2,36,328 employees at the end of the September quarter of FY27, compared with 2,42,156 employees in the year-ago quarter and 2,43,044 employees at the end of the June quarter.
The company's sales and support staff in IT services also declined sequentially but increased from a year earlier.
Wipro's voluntary attrition rate remained unchanged year-on-year, while net employee utilisation declined compared with both the previous quarter and the corresponding period last year.
Employee headcount: Wipro's closing employee count declined by 5,828 from 2,42,156 in the September quarter of FY26 to 2,36,328 in Q2 FY27, marking a 2.4 per cent year-on-year fall. On a sequential basis, the employee count declined by 6,716 from 2,43,044 in Q1 FY27, a decrease of 2.8 per cent.
Sales and support staff: The company's sales and support staff in IT services stood at 15,016 in Q2 FY27, down 0.6 per cent from 15,100 in the previous quarter. However, the count increased 3 per cent from 14,574 in the year-ago quarter.
Net utilisation: Wipro's net utilisation, excluding trainees, stood at 83.4 per cent in Q2 FY27, compared with 83.6 per cent in the previous quarter and 84.5 per cent a year earlier. This represents a decline of 0.2 percentage points sequentially and 1.1 percentage points year-on-year.
Voluntary attrition: The company's trailing 12-month voluntary attrition rate in IT services, excluding its business process services (BPS) segment, stood at 13.8 per cent. The rate was 13.9 per cent in the previous quarter and 13.8 per cent in the year-ago period.
BPS attrition: Quarterly attrition in BPS after training increased to 10.7 per cent in Q2 FY27 from 9.9 per cent in the previous quarter and 8.6 per cent in the year-ago period.
Wipro reported a 1.9 per cent year-on-year decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 3,199.7 crore for the September quarter of FY27. Revenue increased 9.1 per cent year-on-year to Rs 24,752.7 crore.
On a sequential basis, net profit declined 4.7 per cent, while revenue fell 1.1 per cent from the June quarter.