India’s third largest software services firm Wipro has sacked as many as 600 employees post a performance appraisal. However, the speculation has been widespread that the number may go up to 2000. By the end of December 2016, the employee count of this Benguluru based company was 1.79 lakh.
This layoff is a part of an annual process of the company, which includes finding out the non-performers and clearing them out. “This systematic and comprehensive performance evaluation process triggers a series of actions such as mentoring, retraining and up-skilling. The performance appraisal may also lead to the separation of some employees from the company and these numbers vary from year to year,” said Wipro about in regard to this layoff.
This move comes after its major rival Cognizant initiated to lay off 6000 employees, which represents just 2% of its entire workforce. And also when companies are facing an uncertain environment after their worker visas have been curbed by various countries like Australia, Singapore as well as New Zealand. These companies use work visas to send employees to work on client sites.
According to some reports, Indian IT companies get their most of the revenue (60%) from the North American market, 20 % from Europe and the remaining from other economies. Since technologies like automation and artificial intelligence has come into existence, the need to have a larger number of employees at a client site has been reducing.
