What was the revenue for the company in 3Q of FY '20 
e crisis of the last weeks. And, there will be an acceleration of their transformation over the next quarters. The level of adoption of cloud in the different markets is going to accelerate tremendously, and without -- not even talking about the potential of 5G for a lot of the technologies that we are talking about.
So, I think, I would say that the winners in the industry would be the one who have been able to adapt and shift the fastest to the evolution of this demand and be able to come on one side and work with the clients, the partners to drive efficiencies, simplify organizations, reduce the cost of running operations and so on. And on the other side, reinvest at least part of these savings to new technology and new ways of working, helping creation of new revenue streams, through innovation, and technology.
So it's going to be about being able to adjust, being able to accelerate and stick as close as possible to our customers and hear and get a deep understanding of the challenges of each industry and be able to respond to it. Services need to be sector specific to address those needs -- those requirements from our clients.
Divya Nagarajan -- UBS -- Analyst
Thanks for that. Jatin, my question to your earlier comment that you have brought down your temporary workforce and replaced it with some of the slack that you had in the system because of this downturn. What would -- how would you kind of look at talent in building up the bench as demand returns? Would it mean that some of the temporary workforce comes back or do you think that you have enough slack in the system still, because utilization, as you said, has gone up a bit? Does that mean that you will have to then increase hiring as demand comes up? How should we think about this equation?
Jatin Dalal -- President and Chief Financial Officer
So, we have, right now, sufficient availability of talent in the company. Having said that, right now, as we always say that we will hire for revenue. So, if there is a need to hire externally, we will definitely look at it. But the action that we took was a very straightforward, I would say, straightforward method of [Indecipherable] action that when we saw the reduction in some of our revenues, some of our own employees became available for work. And if we had a skill set which was available, with which we could service our customers, we did not need the cost of the variable workforce. And therefore, we sort of reduced that variable workforce and put our own employees to service those requirements. And if it goes up, then we have all the channels available for us to utilize it.
Saurabh, do you want to add anything to that?
Saurabh Govil -- President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Yeah, just to add, one is that, in the -- some of the geographies in the developed markets we've been able to put some employee on furlough and that's helped in our cost perspective, but our talent's available for us and as and when demand comes, we can quickly get them back without hiring anybody. So, it's a win-win for the employees, for the company of not going and hiring people when the demand comes back or gearing ourselves for that. And the other one is also about crowdsourcing and the Top Gear platform and how you utilize that. That's another advantage. We're seeing a lot of traction on Top Gear. In the quarter, we've seen a large demand on that one. These two would be other drivers in terms of looking at when demand comes back.
Divya Nagarajan -- UBS -- Analyst
Thank you, and all the best.
Operator
Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, we will take our last question now which is from the line of Mr. Girish Pai from Nirmal Bang. Please go ahead.
Girish Pai -- Nirmal Bang -- Analyst
Thanks for the opportunity. Just wanted to discuss the trajectory of recovery. You had your best quarter recently in 3Q of FY '20 of about just a little less than $2.1 billion. By when do you think you will get back to that number, Jatin? That's question number one. Second question is regarding pricing. Do you see that the worst on the pricing front is 
e crisis of the last weeks. And, there will be an acceleration of their transformation over the next quarters. The level of adoption of cloud in the different markets is going to accelerate tremendously, and without -- not even talking about the potential of 5G for a lot of the technologies that we are talking about.
So, I think, I would say that the winners in the industry would be the one who have been able to adapt and shift the fastest to the evolution of this demand and be able to come on one side and work with the clients, the partners to drive efficiencies, simplify organizations, reduce the cost of running operations and so on. And on the other side, reinvest at least part of these savings to new technology and new ways of working, helping creation of new revenue streams, through innovation, and technology.
So it's going to be about being able to adjust, being able to accelerate and stick as close as possible to our customers and hear and get a deep understanding of the challenges of each industry and be able to respond to it. Services need to be sector specific to address those needs -- those requirements from our clients.
Divya Nagarajan -- UBS -- Analyst
Thanks for that. Jatin, my question to your earlier comment that you have brought down your temporary workforce and replaced it with some of the slack that you had in the system because of this downturn. What would -- how would you kind of look at talent in building up the bench as demand returns? Would it mean that some of the temporary workforce comes back or do you think that you have enough slack in the system still, because utilization, as you said, has gone up a bit? Does that mean that you will have to then increase hiring as demand comes up? How should we think about this equation?
Jatin Dalal -- President and Chief Financial Officer
 So, we have, right now, sufficient availability of talent in the company. Having said that, right now, as we always say that we will hire for revenue. So, if there is a need to hire externally, we will definitely look at it. But the action that we took was a very straightforward, I would say, straightforward method of [Indecipherable] action that when we saw the reduction in some of our revenues, some of our own employees became available for work. And if we had a skill set which was available, with which we could service our customers, we did not need the cost of the variable workforce. And therefore, we sort of reduced that variable workforce and put our own employees to service those requirements. And if it goes up, then we have all the channels available for us to utilize it.
Saurabh, do you want to add anything to that?
Saurabh Govil -- President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Yeah, just to add, one is that, in the -- some of the geographies in the developed markets we've been able to put some employee on furlough and that's helped in our cost perspective, but our talent's available for us and as and when demand comes, we can quickly get them back without hiring anybody. So, it's a win-win for the employees, for the company of not going and hiring people when the demand comes back or gearing ourselves for that. And the other one is also about crowdsourcing and the Top Gear platform and how you utilize that. That's another advantage. We're seeing a lot of traction on Top Gear. In the quarter, we've seen a large demand on that one. These two would be other drivers in terms of looking at when demand comes back.
Divya Nagarajan -- UBS -- Analyst
Thank you, and all the best.
Operator
Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, we will take our last question now which is from the line of Mr. Girish Pai from Nirmal Bang. Please go ahead.
Girish Pai -- Nirmal Bang -- Analyst
Thanks for the opportunity. Just wanted to discuss the trajectory of recovery. You had your best quarter recently in 3Q of FY '20 of about just a little less than $2.1 billion. By when do you think you will get back to that number, Jatin? That's question number one. Second question is regarding pricing. Do you see that the worst on the pricing front is 