TCS layoffs: Headcount reduces by 20,000 in Q2 FY26, CHRO says 6,000 let go

Only 1%, or 6,000 people, have been affected by TCS layoffs, Chief HR Officer Sudeep Kunnumal said on Thursday, but the factsheets of the company’s latest quarterly results tell a different story altogether.

“A lot of these numbers are not factual, are extremely exaggerated” and “should be disregarded”, Kunnumal told PTI after TCS’ second-quarter results, adding that the company is “not chasing a number”. “As we speak today, we are close to 1% of people that we have released in mid- and senior-level, whom we could not redeploy in the right role.”