{"id":951442,"date":"2025-07-31T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951442"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:56:50","slug":"it-sector-at-crossroads-tcs-layoffs-reflect-deeper-issues-says-jefferies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/it-sector-at-crossroads-tcs-layoffs-reflect-deeper-issues-says-jefferies\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Sector at Crossroads: TCS layoffs reflect deeper issues, says Jefferies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services\u2019 (TCS) plan to lay off nearly 2 percent of its workforce is raising concerns across the IT sector, with Jefferies warning that the move may signal deeper troubles. The brokerage said the layoffs could lead to near-term execution slippages and long-term attrition risks, reflecting weak underlying demand conditions. Jefferies believes the cost-cutting trend, coupled with AI-driven productivity demands, may push other IT firms to take similar measures, especially if they fail to win market share.<\/p>\n<p>Layoffs Part of Larger Restructuring Effort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services\u2019 (TCS) plan to lay off nearly 2 percent of its workforce is raising concerns across the IT sector, with Jefferies warning that the move may signal deeper troubles. The brokerage said the layoffs could lead to near-term execution slippages and long-term attrition risks, reflecting weak underlying demand conditions. Jefferies believes the cost-cutting trend, coupled with AI-driven productivity demands, may push other IT firms to take similar measures, especially if they fail to win market share. Layoffs Part of Larger Restructuring Effort<\/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-951442","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\/951442","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=951442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}