Time for some soul searching and not being opportunistic. Infy has a bench, they need satyam’s customers and not their employees and that is evident by the way they are talking.

There are plenty of stories/rumours about Infy and their bad culture.

I just today spoke to a lot of my friends in satyam and ex satyamites….They are showing great solidarity with their company and have a Great BELIEF in their organization….They will overcome this and will probably emerge bigger, better and MOST CLEAN (No one is BLACK or WHITE…we all are shades of grey….)
When in early 2000 satyam had created competencies in consulting, own products and enterprise products, infy, wipro etc were still Y2K and support….they poached heavily on Satyam to get ready talent on packaged products….They forgot who created this Talent (high end skills) when others were converting IITs and IIMs into rag pickers (low end support jobs)…today there is dearth of high end talent bcos some companies used IITs for support jobs….

What raju and others did is unpardonable crime, but that doesnt mean 50K employees are also equally bad….At this stage we need people to come in their support and not play games and be opportunistic….its not just about Satyam, its about saving India’s image…Lets rise above petty things and help save country’s pride

So, why this ‘moral ground’ Mr NRN?

- why cant same principles be applied to satyam employees?

Naryan Murthy clearly explained this on CNBC TV ( Refer Sunday news- Morning ) where he states that how ppl took his statement in an unhealthy manner. He instructed HR so in order to keep the biggest asset ( read employees ) of Satyam in Satyam !! Any buyout/merger or clients would have only reason to do business in future with Satyman only for its talent pool !!!!!!!

So, dear readers …please do not blindly follow/comment a news but follow it sensibly !!!

1) NRN never said anything about Satyam employees
2) In fact Mohan das pai in his first statement after this news broke out said he was empthazing with the 50000 employees who are innocent and are caught up in this controversy. 3) The intention of that statement about employees was that Infy will not proactively poach employees from Satyam and destablize it further 4) Mohandas pai again yesterday said that they will not do the same for Satyam customers (actively poach). 5) A very popular economist suggested in Times of India that if there is someone who can turn this around for Satyam with his strength of Integrity and goodwill, it is NRN. See Just because Infy is not doing this it is not like other companies will not do it. They will try esp in the weak economic sceanrio and might even succeed. But Infy says it wont do it just because it is not the right thing to do. @Amarand – The word Tainted just suggest that a company where there have been some malpractices or unethical behaviour. With all the news report in the past couple of weeks. There is no doubt that satyam’s Chairman has been indulging in a lot of mal practices. That’s what all he said and Infy as company does find it a good strategy to acquire a company which will reduce it brand value which it has invested so much on. I think we all should be proud of NRN irrespecive of what companies we work for. He has somebody whom all business leaders all over the world should emulate for his integrity.

I have taken a deep breath, and now I am calm…Satyam has a strenght of 53000 employees and if investigating agency come, do you mean each and every employee including the developers and Project managers are to be questioned by CBI……This assumption is ridiculous.

Even if Infosys, had a good intention of not poaching (This poaching is only to employees and not to satyam clients) then why they talk this big in Media…Just a small instructions to HR is enough…Why publicise….and instructions to Infy employees not to even entertain calls from Satyam is something stupid and mockery of a Good Corporate Governance…..Is Infy a third rate provision store or a professional company……

When TCS,WIPRO,HCL all are maintaining professional majestic silence, why Infy alone loafing around and making ugly unsolicited statements as if they are the self proclaimed Messiah of IT industry……….

Now Infy had set a new trend of CORPORATE APARTHEID……and its implications are goiing to be disastorous……………..

Probably we have to wait to get a new Nelson Mandela to wage war against CORPORATE APARTHEID POLICY OF INFOSYS.

“By saying that they won’t recruit now, they are encouraging other companies to say the same and ensure Satyam has a chance of survival.” – But there are 20,000 CVs floating – what do you do with that? Let them commit suicide? Close all the doors?

All Infosys is saying is that the poor competitor is in a crisis and its survival has ramifications for India as an IT hub. They are just being considerate on the company and giving it some time to clean up its act. It’s just responsible behaviour because hiring from other companies happens all the time. They are just being generous now and like one of the comments suggested, Infosys does not need to hire now anyway. So this comment is just an attempt at gaining moral high-ground.

Companies always recruit from each other. What’s wrong in that? By saying that they won’t recruit now, they are encouraging other companies to say the same and ensure Satyam has a chance of survival.

Think from the perspective of Infosys. Satyam is still under investigation by half a dozen government agencies and the extent of the fraud is unknown. Even if the satyam’s rank-and-file employees had no knowledge (which is likely), they are still a part of the investigation, and are likely to be deposed/interrogated by the investigative agencies. Under the law, _ALL_ email accounts/other communication of such employees can be opened up. Infosys simply doesn’t want to get involved in what promises to be a length legal wrangle.

And it’s not like Infosys is desperately seeking to expand.

You need to think for a minute before writing such emotionally charged triades.

Dream on.

I am extremely disappointed with this post. You have jumped the gun without understanding the true issue and are trying to create a frenzy with Infy bashing. If these statements are true – I dont trust everything written in the media as they are hell bent on sensationalising stuff – it was only to ensure that the Satyamites stay and help execute customer projects on hand. Satyam can still come out of this clean if they can retain customers and the only way to do this is by demonstrating commitment to executing projects on hand. If employees quit – and I am not syaing they should not – it will only cause more damage , to the entire industry. If you dont agree with this point of view, I rest my case.

Please donot do stuff for the sake of sensationalising stuff and getting hits on your site – there are a number of TV channels doing this already. Build credibility ….

The idea is very simple – hire talent, the way you were hiring earlier as well (with no bias against/towards the brand).

And is nasscom also asking biggies to not poach satyam clients?

I am more driven by neutrality of the situation and the not the business gains (or to say, minimize loss) to Infy (and the likes)..

regd. the assumption, its clear from infy asking its employees to not entertain satyam resume.

Frankly speaking, most of the employees will start looking out in such a situation and closing doors is just not right – and as i have been saying this ‘respect talent, the way it should be’.

That was my view on this. I also disagree with you on… “The basic assumption behind this decision is that Satyam employees also participated in Raju’s chaos story. ” … The statement from Infy in no way indicates this assumption. Thus it is your assumption of their assumption .
Overall i feel that this article is a little less thought out than most of your other articles. Or prob just very well thought out from a marketing perspective.

Regards
Ishan