The State of GCC Talent.
Our annual report on the senior talent market that powers India's GCCs. The year in hiring, compensation, and leadership, read against a decade of placement data, with a clear view of the year ahead. The one report a GCC leadership team should read cover to cover.
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2026 Edition
2026 Edition
The year GCC talent stopped being a cost story and became a capability one.
The 2026 edition reads the year that changed the question leadership teams ask about their India centres, from how cheaply can we staff it to what can it own. It covers the senior hiring market, where comp moved, how leadership matured, and what we expect across the next twelve months. Every figure is a draft pending Sachith's sign-off against placement data.
- 01 The senior bench deepened. Ownership moved to India in functions that used to report elsewhere. [NEEDS SOURCE — Sachith]
- 02 Comp split by capability. The gap between top-tier and median senior pay widened in the fastest-moving segments. [NEEDS SOURCE — Sachith]
- 03 Retention held where the work was real. Centres owning genuine charters kept their senior people; the rest churned. [NEEDS SOURCE — Sachith]
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Past editions
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Earlier editions.
2025 Edition
2025
The year the charters got bigger.
How global functions began moving ownership to India in earnest. Figures pending sign-off.
Read the 2025 edition
2024 Edition
2024
When senior supply got tight.
The year the scarcity of director-level talent became the binding constraint. Figures pending sign-off.
Read the 2024 edition
2023 Edition
2023
The baseline year.
The edition that set the benchmarks the later years are read against. Figures pending sign-off.
Read the 2023 edition
What's in the report
How the State of GCC Talent is built.
A full report, structured so a leadership team can read the argument and a planning team can use the depth behind it.
01 · The year
What actually changed
A clear read on the year in senior GCC talent, written and signed by Sachith, drawn from a full year of placement data rather than survey aggregates.
02 · The depth
Sector, level, city, comp
The detailed cuts behind the headline, sector by sector and level by level, so the report holds up to a CHRO and a planning lead alike.
03 · The year ahead
A view, taken seriously
Our read on the twelve months coming, stated plainly and revisited next year. Every figure verified against placement data before release.