The Maharashtra government confirmed on December 9, 2025, that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has laid off 376 employees across its Pune campuses in the past two quarters of the ongoing financial year (2025-2026).
As per the Press Trust of India, Labour Minister Aakash Fundkar provided these numbers in the upper house of the state legislature, based on information supplied by TCS.
This was in answer to the concerns of legislators who cited media reports suggesting large-scale retrenchments at the IT services major. Members of the house, including Uma Khapre, Pravin Darekar, and Prasad Lad, spoke up during the Question Hour about the increasing job losses in the country’s technology sector and how AI is impacting the same.
They also questioned whether about 30,000 TCS employees had been retrenched across locations, including Pimpri Chinchwad, Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Fundkar responded in writing that TCS had confirmed 45,575 employees currently work across its Pune campuses. The minister clarified that the 376 employees were laid off after discussions, the serving of notices and payment of salaries.
The minister added that, as per TCS, the affected employees were primarily in middle- and senior-management roles. The company also remained firm that the deployment of AI or automation technologies did not drive the retrenchments.
