New Delhi, Jul 27 (PTI) India’s largest IT companies agency, Tata Consultancy Providers (TCS), is about to put off about 2 per cent, or 12,261 workers, of its world workforce this yr, with nearly all of these impacted belonging to center and senior grades.
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.
The transfer is a part of the corporate’s broader technique to turn into a “future-ready organisation”, specializing in investments in expertise, AI deployment, market growth, and workforce realignment, TCS mentioned in an announcement.
“TCS is on a journey to turn into a Future-Prepared organisation. This contains strategic initiatives on a number of fronts, together with investing in new-tech areas, getting into new markets, deploying AI at scale for our shoppers and ourselves, deepening our partnerships, creating next-gen infrastructure, and realigning our workforce mannequin.
“In direction of this, a lot of reskilling and redeployment initiatives have been underway. As a part of this journey, we may even be releasing associates from the organisation whose deployment will not be possible. This can influence about 2 per cent of our world workforce, primarily within the center and the senior grades, over the course of the yr,” it mentioned.
TCS will present acceptable advantages, outplacement, counselling, and assist to the impacted workers, it added
The transfer comes at a time when India’s prime IT companies corporations have delivered single-digit income progress in Q1FY26, capping off a somewhat-sobering June quarter as macroeconomic instability and geopolitical tensions weighed on world tech demand and delayed consumer decision-making.
For TCS, the income rose 1.3 per cent year-on-year to ₹63,437 crore, bottomline improved 5.9 per cent to ₹12,760 crore in Q1FY26.
TCS MD and Chief Govt Ok Krithivasan not too long ago mentioned the corporate is experiencing a “demand contraction” as a result of continued uncertainties on the macroeconomic and geopolitical fronts, and added that he doesn’t see a double-digit income progress in FY26.
Krithivasan defined the delays in decision-making skilled within the previous quarter have “intensified” now, and hoped for the discretionary spends – a main mover of income growths for IT corporations – would return as soon as the uncertainties ebb.
Microsoft, the second most beneficial publicly listed firm after Nvidia globally, has to this point laid off over 15,000 workers in 2025, that’s 7 per cent of the corporate’s world workforce.
In a memo to over 200,000 workers final week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mentioned the layoffs this yr have been “weighing closely” on him.
“That is the enigma of success in an trade that has no franchise worth,” he mentioned within the memo to employees.
He added: “Progress isn’t linear. It’s dynamic, typically dissonant, and all the time demanding. But it surely’s additionally a brand new alternative for us to form, lead by, and have higher influence than ever earlier than.”
In line with Layoffs.fyi – a platform that tracks world tech trade layoffs – over 80,000 tech staff have been laid off throughout 169 tech corporations in 2025 alone.
In 2024, that quantity stood at a staggering 1.5 lakh throughout 551 tech corporations – the stark numbers coinciding as a lot with world macroeconomic woes as with deep debate in tech circles concerning the influence of AI on job roles, workforce, and employability.