Athira Sethu
Kochi, 29 August 2025
In 2025, numerous individuals across the globe have lost employment in the tech industry. To date in the current year, more than 1.3 lakh (131,417) of the technology employees have been fired. That’s already over half of the cumulative layoffs in 2024, which hit more than 2.3 lakh individuals. These figures were reported by TrueUp, an online platform that monitors the trend of tech jobs.
A number of major tech firms have issued job layoffs. The largest was by Intel, which eliminated 21,400 jobs. The second largest layoff was by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), which will lay off 12,000 workers within the next year.
In India, recruitment has weakened in the IT sector, which is one of the biggest job creators. During April to June 2025 (first quarter of financial year 2025-26), three of India’s largest five IT firms recruited fewer individuals than during the previous quarter.
Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Tech Mahindra all reported low new recruitments.
Infosys recruited only 210 new employees, which is merely 0.06% of its total workforce.
TCS, India’s largest private sector employer, hired 5,090 employees during the same quarter but subsequently announced the massive job reduction plan.
Experts say that these layoffs would not have come as a surprise. Mohandas Pai, former senior leader at Infosys, told that these reductions occur when companies cease to hire freshers. Therefore, there are excess senior employees.
R. Chandrashekhar, a former NASSCOM head, stated that the growth in AI is influencing the industry, but AI is not the primary cause of the TCS layoff. He feels that clients are requesting firms to accomplish more work using fewer resources, leading to cost pressures.
A report by Emkay, a brokerage firm, stated that businesses are employing fewer veteran workers and this can continue until the world’s demand for technology services picks up.
Another employee rights organization, NITES, has written to the Indian Labour Ministry requesting the government to intervene and assist workers.
In short, technology job eliminations are increasing worldwide, and Indian information technology firms are making fewer hires. Experts attribute this to sluggish global growth and cost-saving measures. Employees and labor unions are now seeking assistance to save jobs.
