{"id":951422,"date":"2025-07-31T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951422"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T04:52:54","slug":"infosys-not-planning-mass-layoffs-ceo-salil-parekh-clears-the-air-as-tcs-set-to-fire-12000-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/infosys-not-planning-mass-layoffs-ceo-salil-parekh-clears-the-air-as-tcs-set-to-fire-12000-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Infosys not planning mass layoffs: CEO Salil Parekh clears the air as TCS set to fire 12,000 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys has no plans for mass layoffs, its CEO Salil Parekh confirmed in an interview with the Times of India, a stance that stands in sharp contrast to the recent workforce cuts at competitors like Tata Consultancy Services. <\/p>\n<p>Parekh credited the company\u2019s stability to &#8220;strategic investments in AI and reskilling its workforce,&#8221; which he said have allowed Infosys to &#8220;stay slightly ahead.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This strategy is backed by a robust hiring plan, as per the tech giant&#8217;s CEO. Parekh revealed the company has already made over 17,000 gross hires in the fiscal first quarter and is aiming to bring on approximately 20,000 college graduates this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infosys has no plans for mass layoffs, its CEO Salil Parekh confirmed in an interview with the Times of India, a stance that stands in sharp contrast to the recent workforce cuts at competitors like Tata Consultancy Services. Parekh credited the company\u2019s stability to &#8220;strategic investments in AI and reskilling its workforce,&#8221; which he said have allowed Infosys to &#8220;stay slightly ahead.&#8221; This strategy is backed by a robust hiring plan, as per the tech giant&#8217;s CEO. Parekh revealed the company has already made over 17,000 gross hires in the fiscal first quarter and is aiming to bring on approximately [&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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951422","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=951422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}