Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry TCS claims to have trained over 550,000 employees in basic digital skills and 100,000 in advanced capabilities. Yet the company still eliminated 19,755 positions citing “skill mismatch” as workers cannot transition to AI-heavy technical roles. The disconnect between stated reskilling investments...
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Why American Corporations Are Cutting IT Outsourcing Contracts as AI Replaces Offshore Labor
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry The value proposition that built India’s IT outsourcing dominance—skilled technical labor at competitive costs—faces unprecedented challenge as American corporations discover that artificial intelligence can deliver equivalent functionality without offshore complexity. When Salesforce reduces customer support staff from 9,000 to 5,000 using...
India’s Largest IT Company Admits Its Workers Can’t Keep Up: Why TCS’s 20,000 Layoffs Signal the End of Traditional Outsourcing
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry When Tata Consultancy Services announced plans to eliminate 12,260 positions citing “skill mismatch,” few anticipated the actual scale of workforce reduction that followed. By the close of Q2 FY26, TCS’s headcount had plummeted by 19,755 employees—from 613,069 to 593,314—marking the steepest...
Target and UPS Cut 36,000+ Jobs in Single Month as White-Collar AI Recession Takes Hold
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry The October 2025 announcements from Target and UPS—1,800 corporate reductions and disclosure of 34,000 year-to-date layoffs respectively—collectively eliminated over 36,000 positions during a single month. These aren’t pandemic corrections or recession responses. Both companies maintain strong financial performance while systematically reducing...
Meta’s 3,600 “Low Performer” Layoffs Mask Zuckerberg’s Plan to Replace Mid-Level Engineers with AI
Toppe Consulting – Your Source for Digital News & Trends in the Legal Industry When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would cut 5 percent of its workforce—approximately 3,600 employees—the justification seemed straightforward: removing “low performers” to maintain the company’s competitive edge. But the timing and context reveal a far more significant strategic shift. Just days before...