{"id":953730,"date":"2025-08-09T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=953730"},"modified":"2025-08-09T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:06:34","slug":"india-tech-giant-tcs-layoffs-herald-ai-shakeup-of-283-billion-outsourcing-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/09\/india-tech-giant-tcs-layoffs-herald-ai-shakeup-of-283-billion-outsourcing-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"India tech giant TCS layoffs herald AI shakeup of $283 billion outsourcing sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services&#8217; decision to cut over 12,000 jobs signals the start of a broader AI-fueled trend that could end up eliminating around half a million jobs over the next two to three years from the $283 billion sector, experts said. <\/p>\n<p>While TCS pegged the move to shed 2% of its workforce to skill mismatches rather than AI-related productivity gains, experts viewed the largest-ever layoffs by India&#8217;s top private employer as the beginning of things to come in the labour-intensive sector. Roughly 12,200 TCS middle and senior management jobs will be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services&#8217; decision to cut over 12,000 jobs signals the start of a broader AI-fueled trend that could end up eliminating around half a million jobs over the next two to three years from the $283 billion sector, experts said. While TCS pegged the move to shed 2% of its workforce to skill mismatches rather than AI-related productivity gains, experts viewed the largest-ever layoffs by India&#8217;s top private employer as the beginning of things to come in the labour-intensive sector. Roughly 12,200 TCS middle and senior management jobs will be lost.<\/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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953730","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=953730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}