India’s largest IT services company TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) is set to lay off 12,000 employees globally, or approximately 2 per cent of its workforce, the company has said.

In total, 12,261 employees, mostly belonging to mid and senior grades, will be affected due to the latest TCS layoffs. 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.

In its statement on Sunday, TCS said that the IT company layoffs 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.

“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.