TCS puts 130 more UK employees in scanner

TCS puts 130 more UK employees in scanner. No hikes in Salary this year. More Job Cuts are Possible in TCS.
Just a day after the report of India’s biggest software exporter TCS laying off several employees at its UK office, comes a report that the company has put another 130 employees under scanner.
According to a report in a business daily, the 130 employees are said to be working for its UK-based insurance client Legal and General’s (L&G’s).

In June 2008, TCS signed a five-year agreement with L&G to provide IT managed services. Under this, TCS was to provide application development and support services from the client’s premises plus TCS’ new delivery centre based in UK.

Earlier reports said that Mumbai-based TCS laid off most of its marketing team in London, plus a large number of professionals in the consulting division. According to sources, the targets were mainly the high-end consultants who are said to be an expensive lot to keep on the bench, and marketing.

Giving reasons for the over 100 layoffs in the UK office, TCS CEO & MD S Ramadorai said that either the contracts of these employees had ended, or can be due to bad performance. He added that going forward in the year, a lot of emphasis will be on employee efficiency.

This week, the IT major also accepted that it may go for further job cuts to tackle global economic downturn. The company also ruled out salary hikes next year.

Ramadorai said, “There would be no hike in salaries in the forthcoming year” and added that “job cuts are possible if the situation worsens”.