HCLTech amongst world’s prime 50 corporations for ladies in Forbes 2026 rating; solely Indian agency on record

HCLTech’s concentrate on ladies’s profession progress

Commenting on the popularity, Ramachandran Sundararajan, Chief Folks Officer at HCLTech, mentioned the corporate continues to spend money on skilled improvement and inclusive office practices.

“This recognition for the second yr in a row displays HCLTech’s dedication to profession development for ladies and constructing a office anchored in our core worth of inclusion, which is concentrated on creating an setting the place everybody can succeed and do their greatest work,” Sundararajan mentioned.

He added that HCLTech is combining an AI-driven expertise technique with investments in studying, profession improvement and mentorship to create extra equitable progress alternatives.

The corporate has launched a number of initiatives designed to help ladies workers all through their skilled journeys.

These embrace its Allyship initiative, Girls Join Community Worker Useful resource Group and Girls Profession Improvement Applications.

Girls account for 50% of HCLTech’s board

Girls at the moment characterize 50% of HCLTech’s board, reflecting gender illustration on the firm’s highest governance stage.

HCLTech additionally operates a Second Profession Return Program, aimed toward serving to ladies from numerous skilled backgrounds re-enter the workforce after profession breaks.

In line with the corporate, these initiatives contributed to a 99.88% return-to-work fee amongst ladies workers who took parental depart throughout FY26.

The determine signifies that just about all ladies workers lined by the corporate’s parental-leave return metric resumed work in the course of the monetary yr.

How Forbes evaluated corporations

The Forbes rating covers greater than 400 corporations worldwide and relies on a survey involving roughly 140,000 ladies professionals.

Firms had been assessed throughout three principal parameters: employer model, public opinion and management.

The popularity comes as international organisations face growing scrutiny over gender illustration, office equality and alternatives for ladies to advance into management positions.

For HCLTech, the rating highlights its efforts to strengthen ladies’s participation throughout completely different organisational ranges.