TCS layoffs: India’s largest IT firm, Tata Consultancy Providers (TCS), is ready to chop its workforce by 2% this 12 months, affecting as many as 12,261 workers of its world workforce.
The event comes simply two weeks after TCS stated that the corporate’s ‘precedence’ focus is delivering wage hikes for its over 6 lakh workforce.
As of June 30, 2025, TCS’s workforce stood at 6,13,069. It elevated its workforce by 5,000 workers within the not too long ago concluded April-June quarter.
Why is TCS shedding 12,000 workers?
The transfer is a part of the corporate’s broader technique to turn into a “future-ready organisation” by specializing in investments in know-how, notably in AI deployment and market growth.
TCS has additionally determined to realign its workforce, the corporate stated in a press release.
“TCS is on a journey to turn into a Future-Prepared organisation. This consists of strategic initiatives on a number of fronts.”
The corporate added that this development technique consists of “investing in new-tech areas, coming into new markets, deploying AI at scale for our shoppers and ourselves, deepening our partnerships, creating next-gen infrastructure, and realigning our workforce mannequin,” reported PTI.
Which roles inside TCS will get impacted?
Talking of reskilling and redeployment initiatives, the corporate stated, “As a part of this journey, we will even be releasing associates from the organisation whose deployment might not be possible.”
The workers belonging to the center and senior grades can be impacted by this determination and they are going to be releasedover the course of the 12 months.
What is going to impacted workers get?
TCS stated that impacted workers will obtain applicable advantages, outplacement, counselling, and assist to take care of the scenario.
Shifting insurance policies
The transfer comes weeks after TCS modified its worker bench coverage, requiring employees to keep up a minimum of 225 billable days yearly and limiting time on the bench to lower than 35 days.
On this coveragethe staff need to work for at least 225 enterprise days within the final one-year interval with a lowered bench interval.