{"id":921474,"date":"2025-04-11T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921474"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:31:15","slug":"tariff-toll-tcs-defers-annual-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/11\/tariff-toll-tcs-defers-annual-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariff toll: TCS defers annual hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: TCS&#8217;s decision to defer its annual increments, a rare deviation from its April cycle, coincides with clients&#8217; downbeat sentiment emerging from a slowdown and tariff-related uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the uncertain environment, we will decide on wage hikes during the year . We don&#8217;t want to set a timeline for ourselves by saying when we will announce it (hikes). However, we said that once we have clarity, we will announce hikes,&#8221; said its EVP and CHRO, Milind Lakkad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: TCS&#8217;s decision to defer its annual increments, a rare deviation from its April cycle, coincides with clients&#8217; downbeat sentiment emerging from a slowdown and tariff-related uncertainty. &#8220;Due to the uncertain environment, we will decide on wage hikes during the year . We don&#8217;t want to set a timeline for ourselves by saying when we will announce it (hikes). However, we said that once we have clarity, we will announce hikes,&#8221; said its EVP and CHRO, Milind Lakkad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921474","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}