{"id":950753,"date":"2025-07-29T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950753"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:45:58","slug":"its-not-ai-tcs-ceo-krithivasan-explains-real-reason-behind-12000-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/29\/its-not-ai-tcs-ceo-krithivasan-explains-real-reason-behind-12000-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s not AI&#8217;: TCS CEO Krithivasan explains real reason behind 12,000 job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to cut around 12,000 jobs globally, approximately 2% of its workforce, in what is being termed one of the company\u2019s biggest-ever layoffs. However, the IT major has clarified that the decision has nothing to do with artificial intelligence replacing jobs.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Moneycontrol, TCS CEO K Krithivasan dismissed speculation that AI-led productivity gains were behind the move, saying the cuts are due to a skill mismatch and the company\u2019s inability to redeploy certain employees in its evolving business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to cut around 12,000 jobs globally, approximately 2% of its workforce, in what is being termed one of the company\u2019s biggest-ever layoffs. However, the IT major has clarified that the decision has nothing to do with artificial intelligence replacing jobs. In an interview with Moneycontrol, TCS CEO K Krithivasan dismissed speculation that AI-led productivity gains were behind the move, saying the cuts are due to a skill mismatch and the company\u2019s inability to redeploy certain employees in its evolving business model.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950753","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=950753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}