TCS Layoffs 2025: TCS to Lay Off Over 12,000 Employees Globally in 2025, Mid and Senior-Level Professionals to Face the Brunt of Restructuring

The Indian IT industry is witnessing a wave of layoffs that’s currently shaking the confidence of several IT employees across the sector. In recent shocking news, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which is the country’s largest IT firm, is preparing itself for major layoffs this year. To recall, the tech giant hired 5,000 new employees in April. Nevertheless, now the company is planning to reduce its global headcount and hence coming up with layoffs by over 12,000 this year.

Employees who are said to be affected by these layoffs are from mid to senior-level positions. This move comes after TCS decided to restructure the major part of the company.

Why TCS is Laying Off:

As of June 30, 2025, TCS has a headcount of total 6,13,069 employees which the company is planning to reduce. The company says the move of layoffs are implemented due to tech giant’s strategy to become future-ready by investing in technology, AI, and expanding into new markets.

The company is deciding to layoffs 12,000 employees which is approximately 2% of its global workforce. The tech giant says it will provide benefits, outplacement, counselling, and support to affected employees.

The company says, “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.”

🚨 FITE Condemns Unjust TCS Layoffs | #TCSLayoffs #StopITLayoffs

Today, TCS—India’s largest IT employer—announced fresh layoffs today, targeting around 12000 thousands of employees. We at FITE (Forum for IT Employees) strongly condemn this inhumane and unethical move. Layoffs… pic.twitter.com/aCXYmE4LnK

— Forum For IT Employees – FITE (@FITEMaharashtra) July 27, 2025

What TCS says About Layoffs:

If we look at the data then India’s top IT companies are facing one of the biggest slowdown in business growth in recent years including Q1 FY26 results. The reason for this is the ongoing global uncertainity and war like situations in several countries which is impacting the tech demand and causing delays in client decisions.

For Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), revenue increased modestly by 1.3% year-on-year to Rs 63,437 crore in the June quarter, while net profit rose by 5.9% to Rs 12,760 crore. Company’s CEO K Krithivasan says, “company is dealing with shrinking demand, largely due to these global uncertainties. He so noted, “company is dealing with shrinking demand, largely due to these global uncertainties.”

Not just TCS, Microsoft has also laid off over 15,000 employees in 2025 which is yet again 7% of the global workforce.