With major legal hurdles scaled and business environment improving after the slowdown, Mahindra Satyam is going to increase its workforce by over 50 per cent in the financial year 2011-12.

The company said it would hire 1,000 people at lateral positions every month during the year. This would mean that it would employ 12,000 laterals in the year.

�Good news is that employee confidence in the company has gone up. The fact that more than 20 per cent of our laterals coming up from Tier-I companies shows this,� Dr Maturi Venkata Sridhar, Head of Recruitment of Mahindra Satyam, told Business Line.