TCS layoffs explained: Why business behind tech job cuts goes beyond AI

Layoffs are here — On a slow Sunday afternoon, at TCS, the message landed like a tornado: 12,000 jobs will be made redundant in a year. Weeks earlier, Microsoft’s 9,000 cuts crept in like zombies, wiping out whole teams. Across the technology industry, staff are now speaking of an approaching rock in the sky—a slow-moving asteroid that everyone can see yet no one can outrun.

Regardless of the industry you are in, layoffs are coming.