Tata Consultancy Services.
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Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) has expressed serious concerns over the employee reduction reported by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Wednesday (October 9, 2025).
TCS reported a closing headcount of 5,93,314 employees in Q2 FY26, compared to 6,13,069 employees in Q1 FY26, and this represented a net reduction of 19,755 employees in just one quarter, against 12,000 employees, a number the company spoke about earlier, it highlighted
“This discrepancy is glaring and raises serious concerns about transparency. The company’s own fact sheets publicly available and filed as part of its financial disclosures clearly expose the truth,’‘ observed Harpreet Singh Saluja, president, NITES.
This was not a minor difference, he argued. “Nearly 8,000 employees more than what TCS admitted have disappeared from the rolls. For a company of TCS’s scale, such underreporting cannot be dismissed as an error. It points to a deliberate attempt to downplay the scale of retrenchments and mislead regulators, policymakers, and the public,’‘ Mr. Saluja further said.
The reduction is also deeply alarming given that: Attrition has actually fallen (13.8% → 13.3%), which means these exits were not voluntary but management-driven, according to NITES.
“Employees who gave 10–15 years of loyalty are today being cornered, threatened, and discarded overnight. This is not restructuring, this is corporate cruelty. TCS has chosen profits over people, turning its workplace into a fear factory and betraying the very workforce that built its empire,’‘ Mr. Saluja further said.
Published – October 10, 2025 01:52 am IST
