Tata Consultancy Services has become the first Indian software services company to employ over two lakh staffers.

On a consolidated basis, TCS now has an active staff count of 2,02,190 after making net additions of 3,576 during the three-month period.

Its international competitors IBM and Accenture, employed 4,26,751 and 2,25,000 staffers as on March 31, 2011
Gross hiring

At TCS, gross hiring for the quarter stood at 11,988 largely because of attrition which edged up to 14.8 per cent.