As the economic downturn continues, Infosys Technologies once again plans to quality-check its employees. The IT services company has put 2,200 employees under the scanner for non- performance this year, said a senior executive from the company.

Compared to last year's figures of 1,000 employees, or 1.5 per cent of IT services staff, this year the company has marked 3.5 per cent as being poor performers. Around 600 employees, whom the company claims as non-performers, have already left the company this year.

Such employees are put under a performance improvement plan, provided mentoring and their performance is reviewed for a quarter. "When the times were good, people got away with things. Our tolerance of non-performance has come down now," TV Mohandas Pai, Infosys director of HR, education & research and administration told the Economic Times.

With the company having made about 20,000 job offers to college students across the country for 2009-10, one thing is clear: the company is recruiting freshers and not experienced techies. X