{"id":981696,"date":"2025-12-23T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981696"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:15:32","slug":"from-tcs-ola-electric-to-zepto-indias-top-tech-giants-and-startups-that-laid-off-employees-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/23\/from-tcs-ola-electric-to-zepto-indias-top-tech-giants-and-startups-that-laid-off-employees-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"From TCS, Ola Electric to Zepto: India\u2019s top tech giants and startups that laid off employees in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 2025 draws to a close, India\u2019s tech sector is emerging from its most turbulent year in a decade. A structural shift fueled by AI, a landmark ban on real-money gaming, and an aggressive push for profits has triggered a wave of mega layoffs across the industry. From legacy IT giants like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to high-flying unicorns like Ola Electric and Dream11, no corner of the ecosystem has been left untouched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2025 draws to a close, India\u2019s tech sector is emerging from its most turbulent year in a decade. A structural shift fueled by AI, a landmark ban on real-money gaming, and an aggressive push for profits has triggered a wave of mega layoffs across the industry. From legacy IT giants like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to high-flying unicorns like Ola Electric and Dream11, no corner of the ecosystem has been left untouched.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981696","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=981696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}