{"id":947618,"date":"2025-07-18T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947618"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:45:30","slug":"tcss-bench-policy-why-its-raising-concerns-among-it-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/tcss-bench-policy-why-its-raising-concerns-among-it-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS\u2019s bench policy: Why it\u2019s raising concerns among IT workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India\u2019s largest IT services provider, has recently drawn attention over its &#8220;bench policy&#8221;\u2014a long-standing workforce management practice common in the IT industry. This policy has seen renewed scrutiny following the company&#8217;s statements and internal measures post-Q1 FY2025 earnings, particularly around employee deployment and attrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India\u2019s largest IT services provider, has recently drawn attention over its &#8220;bench policy&#8221;\u2014a long-standing workforce management practice common in the IT industry. This policy has seen renewed scrutiny following the company&#8217;s statements and internal measures post-Q1 FY2025 earnings, particularly around employee deployment and attrition.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947618","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=947618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}