Covid-19 will push a lot more customers to look at outsourcing: HCL CEO

Digital transformations at global companies, expected over the next two to three years, will now hasten in crisis-mode due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to C Vijayakumar, CEO of HCL TechnologiesNSE -0.18 %. In an interview to ET’s Surabhi Agarwal and Raghu Krishnan, Vijayakumar said sectors or companies that were not looking at outsourcing will do so now to save costs. Edited Excerpts

HCL expects a recovery in H2. Between the United States and Europe, where do you expect growth to pick up?

I don’t think the US and Europe are going to be very different, because in Europe, some geographies are already opening up. I think 23 states in the US have also already relaxed some guidelines…