{"id":1032538,"date":"2026-09-02T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032538"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:07:23","slug":"happiest-minds-rules-out-job-cuts-after-merger-with-itc-infotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/happiest-minds-rules-out-job-cuts-after-merger-with-itc-infotech\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiest Minds rules out job cuts after merger with ITC Infotech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The management of Happiest Minds Technologies on Tuesday ruled out any layoffs following its merger with ITC Infotech, stating that the deal is driven by a need for talent and &#8220;deep capabilities&#8221; rather than cost rationalisation. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference after the merger announcement, top executives of the Bengaluru-based firm said that the ITC leadership has specifically stipulated the continuity of the entire workforce and leadership team. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the requests and stipulations from ITC was that each and every Happiest Mind continues. One of the primary reasons for making this acquisition is the deep capabilities in digital data, cybersecurity and AI. They don&#8217;t want to lose this capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of Happiest Minds Technologies on Tuesday ruled out any layoffs following its merger with ITC Infotech, stating that the deal is driven by a need for talent and &#8220;deep capabilities&#8221; rather than cost rationalisation. Addressing a press conference after the merger announcement, top executives of the Bengaluru-based firm said that the ITC leadership has specifically stipulated the continuity of the entire workforce and leadership team. &#8220;One of the requests and stipulations from ITC was that each and every Happiest Mind continues. One of the primary reasons for making this acquisition is the deep capabilities in digital data, cybersecurity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032563,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032538\/revisions\/1032563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}