Recognitions
2016
Winner of Six Awards in CII – 17th National Award for Excellence in Energy Management 2016. Chennai SEZ Campus of HCL Technologies Limited has been conferred with “Excellent Energy Efficient Unit” award and NOIDA SEZ Campus, Bangalore SEZ Campus, Maple Towers NOIDA, Manesar Campus Gurgaon and Surya Sapphire Bangalore facilities of HCL Technologies Limited have been conferred with “Energy Efficient Unit” awards by CII. The award ceremony was held on 24thAugust 2016 under the leadership of Ms. Shobana Kamineni, President Designate, CII in Hyderabad.
2015
HCL secured a position in “India Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) 2015” with an overall score of 90. A steep rise from a total score of 75 (2014) to 90 (2015).
HCL Technologies Limited has been conferred with the prestigious “Golden Peacock Award for Occupational Health & Safety” for the year 2015, by “Institute of Directors”. The Award ceremony was organised on 11th July 2015, and the ceremony was presided over by The Rt. Hon. Baroness Verma, Minister for International Development, Govt. of UK.
Winner of CII - National Award for Excellence in Energy Management. The Noida SEZ campus of HCL Technologies Limited has been conferred with “Excellent Energy Efficient Unit” award by CII. The award ceremony was held on 3rd Sept 2015 under the leadership of Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General of Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India.
HCL has been conferred with the 'Indo German Chamber of Commerce Award' for outstanding contribution towards the promotion of Indo-German Economic Relations for the year 2015. The award was presented on 23rd September,2015 at Mumbai in the presence of H.E. Dr. Martin Ney, German Ambassador to India and Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
HCL applauded for its Strong Commitment to HR Excellence
HCL won the award for “Best in Career Mobility” in the People Matters L&D; Leadership League Awards
HCL awarded the TISS Leap Vault Award for its innovative Learning practices by the CLO Awards Forum
One of the top three winners in the National CSR Case Contest “CSR Initiatives- a Key differentiator” for education project "HCL Gurukul”
HCL ranked 9th among 100 companies for Sustainability and Community Development in Asia in the Inaugural Channel News Asia Sustainability Ranking for 2014
Won “Most innovative Deployment of HR technology” for the gamification of its onboarding process organized by HR Excellence Awards, London
Winner at the Best Talent Management Practices in Asia Study for our Career and Performance Management Practices
Go-Mobile Project recognized as best in class. It is envisioned to yield high productivity by adding flexibility, freedom and speed to information accessibility.
Won Bronze award for the ‘Best Certification Program for our Managerial Excellence Program’ from Brandon Hall Group at 2014 Excellence in Learning Awards
HCL has been listed in the HR Best Practices publication 2015.
HCL Certified as Top Employer in UK for the Ninth consecutive year. HCL’s Culture of Ideapreneurship has been awarded.
2014
Consumer Goods Technology: HCL Honored with 2014 CGT Readers’ Choice Award
HCL rated 19th among the Top 40 Indian Brands
Ranked 59th among 100 Most Desired Place to Work in Poland by Universum - 2014
Award for BEST IN CAREER MOBILITY @ L&D; Leadership League Awards 2014 by People Matters & Deloitte
HCL recognized as Britain’s Top Employer for the Eighth Consecutive Year
TechCEED won Excellence in Innovation award under “Best Innovative Project of the Year” category by World Innovation congress.
L& D won Excellence in Training Award by Employer Branding Awards (EBA) & the Global HR Excellence Awards by the World HRD Congress World HRD congress.
Won AIMA Award – Best Breakthrough HR Practices- Gamification
- Best Breakthrough Marketing Practices- Coolest Interview Ever
Won ASTD Excellence in Practice Award-2013 for achieving scalable, sustainable and business relevant training by leveraging employee expertise
Received a score of 70 on the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) assessment and has moved into the c(CDLI) this year
Won the “CRY Best Employee Engagement Award” - ‘Power of 1’
Won 5 awards under Asian Learning and Development Leadership Awards 2013
- Innovation in Learning- TechCEED
- Excellence in Content Development-Internal Technical Certifications
- Best Learning Program- Best special skills training – PMStEP
- Best Training initiative for IT and software – TechACE
- Excellence in T&D award - An overall award for best results-based training – TechCEED
Won six awards at the 2013-14 RASBIC Awards – Best Use of Technology for Recruiting – iTAP
- Most Innovative Recruiting and Staffing Program/ Initiative – PEP-C Re-Engineering
- Innovation In Recruitment - Gamification
- Best B-School Recruiting Program – MAD LTD
- Best Social Networking Recruitment Effort – StartApp
- Best Overall Staffing and Recruiting Organization of the year
Recognized as a Champion of Women's Empowerment Principles by the UN Women and UN Global Compact
Won Best in Technology and Talent Analytics at Talent Acquisition (TA) Leadership League Awards 2013 organized by People Matters.
ideapreneurship™, HCL’s culture of grassroots innovation, featured as a case study in the Cambridge University Students’ Union (CUSU) publication titled Strategies for Success
Won Britain’s Top Employers for the 8th Consecutive Year 2013
HCL Technologies in Poland, voted amongst the Top 100 Ideal Employers by Universum in 2014. We are currently at the 59th MOST DESRIRED PLACE TO WORK AT in Poland.
2013
Indian Human Capital Award for Best L&D; Strategy
Shiv Nadar Awarded 2013 BNP Paribas Grand Prix for Individual Philanthropy
HCL wins ITSMA’S Diamond and Gold Awards for Marketing Excellence
HCL Wins Good Corporate Citizen Award
ET Now Talent & HR Leadership Awards for Most Innovative Talent Management Program/Initiative (PMStEP); Learning & Talent Initiative Excellence (TechACE); Learning & Talent Technology Excellence (iLearn)
CLO Learning in Practice Silver Collaboration Award along with other companies like McDonald’s Corp., IBM, BAE systems & Hilton
ASTD Excellence in Practice citations for PMStEP and Scalable sustainable business relevant training
2013 Bersin & Associates What Works Award for TechACE
ASTD Excellence in Practice Award for the Business Aligned Training Academy Model
On the Honor Roll of the UN-WEP (Women Empowerment) Leadership Awards 2013, acknowledging our women empowerment programs at work and community.
We are the only India-based company to make it to the Honor list.
2012 Optimas Award recognized for workforce-management leadership and the Working Across Borders program, an HR led initiative with an aim to incubate an inclusive work-culture
One of Britain's Top Employers’2013 for outstanding employee offerings for the seventh consecutive year in recognition of innovative Employees First, Customers Second principles .
Asian L&D; Leadership Awards for Innovation in learning, Best learning team & Best deployment of Learning Management Systems
Asia Pacific HRM Congress Award and Asian HR Leadership Award in Sep’12 for “Pulse” as a unique employee proposition which acts as Organization health meter that resulted in higher employee satisfaction scores, higher employee engagement, improved employee experience and therefore lower attrition.
Asia’s Best Employer Branding Awards for Excellence in training by TechCEED.
Asia-Pacific Enterprise Leadership Awards (APELA) 2013 for Corporate Social Responsibility.
HCL has made it to the prestigious Forbes annual “2013 Asia’s Fab 50” list. This recognition highlights the region’s best-of-the-best that meets a revenue or market capitalization threshold of $3 billion.
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This prestigious award recognizes companies that adhere to excellent governance practices in both letter and spirit, thereby creating an atmosphere of good corporate citizenry. Read more >
This prestigious award honors the achievements of companies in the areas of sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and/or corporate social responsibility.
HCL was the only Indian company on the Honor Roll of the UN-WEP (Women Empowerment) Leadership Awards for 2013. This award salutes business leaders for their exceptional championship of gender equality and support for women’s empowerment.
HCL won this award in the Mobility and Communication Solution of the Year category, for the PUMA (Providing Users Mobile Access) mobile data solution program implemented at the Police Service in Northern Ireland.
The European IT & Software Excellence Awards are the only pan-European awards that recognize the crucial role that ISVs, solution providers, and systems integrators play in the delivery of real-world solutions. Read more >
HCL is the only Indian IT services provider to be chosen to serve on the panel of Shared Services & Outsourcing Network (SSON). SSON is a global forum that supports the shared services and outsourcing community.
HCL ranked among the top 10 solutions providers in the outsourcing category in Consumer Goods Technology’s 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards.
The 2013 Readers’ Choice Survey indicates how the consumer goods industry is approaching technology adoption. Consumer Goods Technology (CGT), an integrated media brand, is a leading resource for consumer goods executives.
For the seventh consecutive year, HCL has been recognized as one of Britain’s top employers for its outstanding employee offerings.
Leading independent business research organization CRF Institute presented the award to HCL, which is one of two companies headquartered in India to be featured in the list.
2012
NASSCOM EXemplary Talent (NExT) Practices Awards were established in 2011 to recognize innovative talent initiatives that are geared towards business needs of the Indian IT-BPO sector and the future readiness for its talent pool. HCL won this based on our commitment to being a Socially Responsible Business, for which we are on track to hire 10,000 local HCLites in Europe and US; in addition to this, our current presence in 31 countries and the fact that in 19 of these countries we have more than 50 percent local workforce. This figure of local workforce is 80 percent if we consider senior leadership in all countries where we are present.
Our balanced global presence is fueled by a three-pronged approach of:
- Rebadging
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Local Hiring
HCL submitted the nominations supported by strong case studies and emerged as a winner in the 'Glocalisers' category. The participation was open to all members and non-members of NASSCOM. All participating companies had to submit a case to support their nomination/s and entries were shortlisted by NASSCOM and their knowledge partner Mercer. The shortlisted companies were then invited to present their nomination/s to an independent Jury in the final round in Bangalore.
Every year, the NASSCOM NExT awards aim to pick up key themes that are likely to play a crucial role in the Indian IT-BPO industry maintaining its leadership position in the global market and also to recognize unique HR initiatives by industry players.
Won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2012 for Market Facing Innovation, in recognition of “distinctive external facing business models and processes that make an effective impact on clients.”
Although it has offices in 26 countries, senior managers at HCL Technologies believe there should be no borders separating its 84,000 employees.
In 2010 the company launched its Working Across Borders initiative, designed to foster knowledge and understanding among its diverse staff, as well as provide insight into the corporate culture itself. HCL has found that its best performers "have the ability to integrate and assimilate in the environment they're working in," says Prithvi Shergill, chief human resources officer for the company based in Noida, India.
To develop those skills among all its employees, the vast majority of whom have been hired locally, the Working Across Borders program relies on four pillars: knowledge, awareness, learning and assimilation.
For the fourth time in a row, WorldBlu lists HCL as one of the Most Democratic Workplaces in the World.
Won Workforce Management magazine’s 2012 Optimas Award for Global Outlook, in recognition of its Working Across Borders program, aimed at incubating an inclusive work culture. (HCL won the 2008 Optimas Award for Innovation, in recognition of its workforce practices.)
Awarded the Forrester Groundswell Award for the second year in a row, in the B2B category, for “fostering CXO intimacy through its Customer Advisory Council.” (In 2011, HCL won in the Innovation category.)
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Won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2012 for Market Facing Innovation, in recognition of “distinctive external facing business models and processes that make an effective impact on clients.”
Recognized as one of Britain’s Top Employers for the 5th consecutive year, for its innovative Employees First philosophy.
By providing support, knowledge, recognition, empowerment, and opportunities for transformation, HCL ensures its employees are excelling professionally and contributing to the company’s growth.
(Conducted by Corporate Research Foundation, UK – an independent international organization that researches best practices of high-performing companies)
Adjudged HR Company of the Decade by Shine.com and World HRD Congress, receiving honors as HR Company of the Decade, HR Leader of the Year, and Best Learning and Development Strategy.
Named the Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year by the National Outsourcing Association (NOA), in recognition of HCL’s commitment to customers and employees, as well as its excellence in driving innovation in the industry.
Included in Forbes’s prestigious Asia’s Fab 50 list of the 50 best publicly traded companies in Asia-Pacific.
(HCL is one of only 11 Indian companies to make it to the Fab 50 List and among only four Indian companies to be part of this group for the past three years. HCL is also one of only two IT services providers to appear in this prestigious listing in 2011 and 2012).
Ranked #3 in the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals’ Global Outsourcing 100 list of the world’s top outsourcing providers.
(IAOP is the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession).
Won the NASSCOM HR Award in the Glocalisers category, for socially responsible business with its commitment to hire 10,000 local employees in Europe and the US. (Of the 31 countries in which HCL operates, 19 have workforces that are more than 50% local.)
2011
Ranked by Business Today magazine as one of the Top 25 Best Companies To Work For.
HCL features among the top players across industries and has been praised for its unique work culture.
The only Asian company featured on Fortune’s Dream Team of senior executives.
The subject of a Darden School of Business case study on the impact created by HCL through its Employees First, Customers Second philosophy.
Received the Information Technology Services Marketing Association’s Diamond Award for Marketing Excellence in building client loyalty and trust through its Customer Advisory Council.
HCL’s Customer Advisory Council (CAC) is a global, collaborative forum in which 80 of HCL’s Fortune 500 C-level customers and thought leaders convene on a regular basis to advise HCL on industry trends, changing business priorities, and its strategic direction (including brand positioning, M&A validation, and go-to-market strategies). HCL translates the advice into actionable plans that create more value for customers.
(ITSMA is the only independent body in tech marketing)
Won the Asian Human Capital Summit Award for its innovative and effective people practices centered on its Employees First, Customers Second philosophy.
Won TPI’s Americas Paragon Award for Innovation Excellence and was recognized as “one of the most innovative R&D players.”
Won the Leadership Award for the Best Electronic System Design Company in the Embedded Systems and Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) industry segment for the second consecutive year at the Silicon India-Mentor Graphics Leadership Awards.
2010
Ranked #1 in traditional IT Outsourcing by Datamonitor’s Black Book of Outsourcing. HCL ranked #1 in both Tier 1 Traditional IT Infrastructure Outsourcing and Remote Infrastructure Management Outsourcing (RIMO) in the 2009-10 survey.
HCL won the top slot because of its focus on innovation, training, and building long-lasting client relationships by ensuring great customer experience.
2009
“The annual ‘Directions’ meet with employees is yet another example of how HCL is fostering transparency to make it part of its DNA and culture. Under the aegis of this platform, the company’s senior leadership, including the CEO, travel to different centres in India and abroad for a unique face-to-face interaction with all employees and talk about the company’s performance in the previous year, future strategies and arrive at decision in the most collaborative fashion. HCL’s leadership had gauged the economic condition way back in September 2008 itself and discussed the scenario and its implications on the organisation in detail with employees at Directions 2009.
Taking into account the current scenario, and the need to involve employees in the ideation process, HCL’s CEO has also begun the process of reverse blogging, where a blog is posted on critical issues relevant in the existing scenario and employees respond with their own solutions and recommendations.”
Won the FT ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Award for its strategic acquisition of AXON, its Employees First philosophy, and exceptional contribution to client success.
Named by Hewitt one of the Best Employers in Asia and ranked #1 in India for creating a positive work experience for employees and also for its long-term approach amid challenging conditions.
Awarded the Golden Peacock Innovation Award in the IT category for MTaaS™, HCL’s Business Service Management centric service delivery platform.
MTaaS™ is a first-of-its-kind private cloud-based platform that redefines the delivery of infrastructure management services.
Awarded the Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award for its Green Datacenter Service.
HCL ISD’s Green Datacenter offering was chosen from among more than 100 corporate entries through a stringent selection process.
(The annual Golden Peacock Awards, instituted by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in 1991, are one of the most prestigious citations in the Indian industry.)
Declared a Leader in human capital development and ranked 3rd among the 100 Best Global IT Service Provider Companies that made it to the Global Services 100 list.
HCL’s Employees First philosophy was a key factor in winning this award.
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Recognized as a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) in India for maximizing enterprise intellectual capital.
For HCL, winning this prestigious award is a recognition of the company’s human capital thought leadership, as exemplified in its Employees First philosophy.
Ranked among the top ten outsourcers with the “highest accountability, transparency and trust.”
2008
HCL was the only India-based company to receive the award
HCL Technologies wins the prestigious “Workforce Optimas Awards” in the Innovation category. The showcase of Employee First Philosophy won HCL this award.
**The winners exemplify the skill and ingenuity it takes for organizations to succeed in the 21st century. They have reinvented the workplace, streamlined government HR processes, created innovative partnerships, confronted talent shortages, saved a corporate reputation, nurtured a learning environment in a fast-paced business setting, transformed a call center environment by investing in employees and much more.**
– Workforce Management editors
Named by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s five most influential up-and-coming companies, along with Craigslist, Facebook, Li & Fung, and SKS Microfinance.
2007
Subject of Harvard Business School case study on business transformation, highlighting the Employees First philosophy.
2006
Acknowledged by Fortune as having the “World’s Most Modern Management.”
Won CLO Learning in Practice Awards 2013-
- Gold Business Impact Award
- Silver Strategy Award
