{"id":967271,"date":"2025-10-10T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967271"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:05:38","slug":"tcs-layoffs-headcount-reduces-by-20000-in-q2-fy26-chro-says-6000-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/10\/tcs-layoffs-headcount-reduces-by-20000-in-q2-fy26-chro-says-6000-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS layoffs: Headcount reduces by 20,000 in Q2 FY26, CHRO says 6,000 let go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 1%, or 6,000 people, have been affected by TCS layoffs, Chief HR Officer Sudeep Kunnumal said on Thursday, but the factsheets of the company\u2019s latest quarterly results tell a different story altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of these numbers are not factual, are extremely exaggerated\u201d and \u201cshould be disregarded\u201d, Kunnumal told PTI after TCS\u2019 second-quarter results, adding that the company is \u201cnot chasing a number\u201d. \u201cAs we speak today, we are close to 1% of people that we have released in mid- and senior-level, whom we could not redeploy in the right role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 1%, or 6,000 people, have been affected by TCS layoffs, Chief HR Officer Sudeep Kunnumal said on Thursday, but the factsheets of the company\u2019s latest quarterly results tell a different story altogether. \u201cA lot of these numbers are not factual, are extremely exaggerated\u201d and \u201cshould be disregarded\u201d, Kunnumal told PTI after TCS\u2019 second-quarter results, adding that the company is \u201cnot chasing a number\u201d. \u201cAs we speak today, we are close to 1% of people that we have released in mid- and senior-level, whom we could not redeploy in the right role.\u201d<\/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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967271","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=967271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}