BANGALORE: Country's largest software firm TCS increased its hiring target to 75,000 from 60,000 for this fiscal and said attrition level has come down marginally for the company.

The attrition rate has stabilised during the second quarter and stood at 16.2 percent compared to the previous three months, the company said, adding it is working on more steps to further bring it down in the third and fourth quarter of the fiscal.

"We have revised upwards our hiring target due to the strong growth witnessed in the first half of the year. Accordingly, we will be hiring 75,000 this fiscal as against 60,000 as planned earlier," executive vice president and global head Ajoy Mukherjee told reporters here.

 "Attrition in absolute number has come down compared to last year. I am quite hopeful that all the initiative we are taking to control attrition will pay off. In Q3 and Q4 the attrition is expected to come down further," Mukherjee said.

He further said in the domestic market too attrition has come down compared to the last quarter and the company has seen a decline on month-on-month basis.

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