Bengaluru, Oct. 9 -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) reported a closing headcount of 593,314 employees in Q2 FY26, down from 613,069 in Q1 FY26, indicating a net reduction of 19,755 employees in just one quarter.
The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) has flagged a glaring discrepancy in the numbers. TCS publicly claimed that only around 12,000 employees were removed during the same period, leaving nearly 8,000 unaccounted for.
NITES President Harpreet Singh Saluja said, "Nearly 8,000 employees more than what TCS admitted have disappeared from the rolls. For a company of TCS scale, such underreporting cannot be dismissed as an error. It points to a deliberate attempt to downplay the scale of retrenchments and mislead ...