<div id="readability-page-1"><div id="contentdata"> <div><div><ul><li>TCS headcount dropped by 30,000 in two quarters, mainly from non-restructuring exits.</li><li>TCS keeps hiring on campuses and laterally despite restructuring and exits.</li><li>HCLTech's headcount stable, influenced by selective hiring and attrition.</li></ul></div></div> Information technology services giant Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) headcount decline over the past two quarters was largely driven by exits outside its ongoing restructuring process, with the company’s numbers explaining only a part of the workforce drop.The maths is straightforward: India’s largest IT services company has said it “released” 6,000 employees in Q2 and around 1,800 in the December quarter, taking the restructuring-linked exits to 7,800 across two quarters.The company’s headcount, however, has fallen by around 30,000 during the period, implying roughly 22,200 exits were outside the restructuring exercise.This bucket would include voluntary churn, routine attrition and other non-restructuring reasons, apart from the releases that TCS has attributed to its workforce review.“We continue to hire and to seek top talent, both from the lateral market and from the campuses as well,” TCS chief human Resources officer Sudeep Kunnumal told analysts on January 12. “In this… quarter as well, we released approximately 1,800 people with all the due care and compliance to all the laws of the land.”The management has framed the restructuring as an ongoing process rather than a one-off exercise, saying it continues to hire from both lateral and campus channels, while “releasing” employees only where redeployment is not working.EIIRTrend CEO Pareek Jain said the drop in headcount is largely due to a sharp slowdown in hiring. “Attrition is largely unchanged, but hiring has slowed drastically, which is why the workforce is shrinking,” Jain said.The Mumbai-headquartered firm’s attrition increased 20 basis point sequentially to 13.5 percent in Q3, even as it continued with workforce restructuring.Comparison with HCLTechHCLTech’s headcount largely stayed flat over the past two quarters, with the company adding 3,489 employees on a net basis in Q2FY26 but reporting a net reduction of 261 employees in Q3FY26, taking its total employee base to 2,26,379 at the end of the December quarter.Both TCS and HCLTech shared their Q3 numbers on January 12.The sequential dip came despite HCLTech onboarding 2,852 freshers in Q3, indicating that overall workforce movement was shaped by attrition and selective rationalisation rather than a broad-based hiring pullback.In the September quarter, the company had onboarded 5,196 freshers, taking total fresher additions in the first half of FY26 to 7,180.HCLTech has not disclosed the number of employees laid off or released, making direct “released versus voluntary” comparisons difficult on an absolute headcount basis.Fresher hiring targets At the start of the current fiscal, TCS had signalled it would keep campus hiring steady, with the then CHRO Milind Lakkad saying the company would recruit around 42,000 freshers, or “similar or little higher” in FY26 after onboarding 42,000 trainees in the previous year.The guidance came even as campus hiring is seen as a lead indicator for demand, and after the company’s headcount increased in FY25 following a decline in FY24.Lakkad also said AI would have a bearing on hiring, calling it a new opportunity that would require new people, while adding that AI-led productivity gains could help TCS “deliver more work” for customers.</div></div>

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塔塔咨询服务公司（TCS）报告称，在两个季度内员工人数减少了 30,000 人，主要是由于自愿离职而非重组过程，其中 22,200 人的离职被归因于非重组原因。尽管如此，TCS 仍在校园和横向市场进行招聘。HCLTech 的员工人数保持稳定，受到选择性招聘和员工流失的影响。TCS 计划在 2026 财年招聘约 42,000 名应届毕业生，强调人工智能对未来招聘和生产力的影响

由于招聘速度放缓，TCS 在重组之外的自愿离职人数在两个季度内超过了 22,000 人