TCS Rejects AI Job Fears, Boosts Advisor Hiring

At a time of high anxiety surrounding global workforces and the threat of artificial intelligence, the top management of TCS, while speaking to NDTV Profit, has completely dispelled the narrative that AI will decimate IT sector jobs, adding that the company is following a structural shift that will focus on fresh hiring and high-level consulting expertise. Addressing widespread concerns over AI-driven automation, TCS CEO K. Krithivasan argued that increased productivity will generate new demand rather than eliminate roles.

TCS Clarifies Job Cuts: Strategy Shift, Not AI Impact

I said what you’re doing today you may get 20% productivity, you may probably do 20% less. But there’s so much of additional work that needs to happen—who is going to do it? So, I’m not expecting that we’ll need much less people than what we have today,” he said. Krithivasan says the recent reductions in headcount were a strategic adjustment, not an AI replacement drive.

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Role Exits Based on Adaptability, Not Downsizing Target

“We only said there are certain people who are in a senior to senior management or middle management who will not be able to adapt to the new future-ready or the new models of working, who will be respectfully outplacing or releasing from the organization. So it is nothing—we didn’t have a size in mind saying that I need to cut down my organisation by this much,” he explained. Meanwhile, Chief Strategy Officer Aarti Subramanian highlighted a deliberate pivot toward advisory roles.

“The other color to this is that we are also investing in more advisory talent, right? Greater focus on consulting and advisory skills helps shift engagement value, as AI requires reimagining workflows, processes, and overall business operations.So we’re bringing the higher experts with consulting and advisory skills as well,” Subramanian noted. “We hired more than 44,000 last year and we have already have 25,000 offers which are already given out for this year. That’s on the entry-level campus hires.

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