Tata Electronics has expanded its workforce to roughly 75,000 employees, completing a 15,000-person hiring drive at its Hosur facility in Tamil Nadu, according to media reports tracking the Tata Group’s electronics manufacturing scale-up.
The headcount target was first flagged by industry sources in late November 2025, with the build-out planned over a six-month window, a timeline that aligns with the current expansion milestone.
The expansion brings Tata Electronics’ employment at the Hosur plant to a level comparable to that of Foxconn, Apple’s largest contract manufacturer in India. Roughly 70% of the Hosur workforce is reportedly women, in line with the staffing pattern Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran has previously highlighted for the facility.
The Tata Sons FY25 annual report noted that Tata Electronics already employed over 65,000 people and had annual revenue of ₹66,601 crore, up from ₹3,752 crore the previous fiscal, a sharp ramp tied to Apple production. “Tata Electronics is well on the road – it already employs over 65,000 workforce (of which approximately 70% are women) and has an annual revenue of INR 66,000 Cr,” the company stated in its annual report.
The hiring push has been driven by surging Apple iPhone production in India. Industry sources told The Economic Times that iPhone exports from India touched a record $10 billion in the first half of FY26, a 75% jump year-on-year, prompting Tata Electronics to scale capacity at speed.
The scale-up has not been frictionless. Industry observers and sources cited in earlier coverage have flagged a skilled-manpower shortage as the binding constraint on India’s electronics manufacturing growth. A TeamLease Services report previously projected the sector could create 12 million direct and indirect jobs by 2027-28, but warned of a potential shortfall of eight million workers and a skill gap affecting another 10 million.
The Hosur milestone places Tata Electronics among the largest single-site employers in India’s manufacturing sector and signals a structural shift in where high-volume, women-majority manufacturing employment is being created.
