New Delhi, Jul 27 (PTI) India's largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is set to lay off about 2 per cent, or 12,261 employees, of its global workforce this year, with the majority of those impacted belonging to middle and senior grades.

As of June 30, 2025, TCS's workforce stood at 6,13,069. It increased its workforce by 5,000 employees in the recently concluded April-June quarter.

The move is part of the company's broader strategy to become a "future-ready organisation", focusing on investments in technology, AI deployment, market expansion, and workforce realignment, TCS said in a statement.

"TCS is on a journey to become a Future-Ready organisation. This includes strategic initiatives on multiple fronts, including investing in new-tech areas, entering new markets, deploying AI at scale for our clients and ourselves, deepening our partnerships, creating next-gen infrastructure, and realigning our workforce model.

"Towards this, a number of reskilling and redeployment initiatives have been underway. As part of this journey, we will also be releasing associates from the organisation whose deployment may not be feasible. This will impact about 2 per cent of our global workforce, primarily in the middle and the senior grades, over the course of the year," it said.

TCS will provide appropriate benefits, outplacement, counselling, and support to the impacted employees, it added. PTI ANK TRB

Workforce reduction announced as part of strategic realignment, with reskilling and outplacement support for impacted staff. Planned workforce reduction by Tata Consultancy Services will release about 2% of its global workforce, affecting approximately 12,261 employees primarily in middle and senior grades, as part of a strategic realignment to become a future-ready organisation through investments in new technologies, AI deployment, and market expansion. The company indicates affected staff will receive benefits, outplacement, counselling, and support, and that reskilling and redeployment initiatives are underway, while releases will occur where deployment is not feasible.