{"id":986255,"date":"2026-01-19T07:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986255"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:12:35","slug":"it-headcount-flattens-as-delivery-models-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/it-headcount-flattens-as-delivery-models-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"IT headcount flattens as delivery models reset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s IT services sector saw a sequential decline in headcount of 2, 938 employees across five companies \u2013 Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech and Tech Mahindra \u2013 in the December quarter, highlighting the growing decoupling between workforce growth and business performance. <\/p>\n<p>While the broader universe remained in contraction mode, the country\u2019s four largest IT services firms \u2014 TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCLTech \u2014 together reported a marginal net addition of 160 employees, effectively signalling flat headcount growth at the top end of the market despite steady deal activity and improving demand commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s IT services sector saw a sequential decline in headcount of 2, 938 employees across five companies \u2013 Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech and Tech Mahindra \u2013 in the December quarter, highlighting the growing decoupling between workforce growth and business performance. While the broader universe remained in contraction mode, the country\u2019s four largest IT services firms \u2014 TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCLTech \u2014 together reported a marginal net addition of 160 employees, effectively signalling flat headcount growth at the top end of the market despite steady deal activity and improving demand commentary.<\/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-986255","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\/986255","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=986255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}