After layoffs, I.T employees face pay cuts and demotions

After facing layoffs, employees in India are experiencing demotion and pay cuts. As the job market remains dull, it is getting increasingly harder for people to find a job.

CNBC-TV18 reported that many who were laid off by tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon are finding it hard to get a new job. The situation is the same for people who were laid off by Indian startups.

CNBC TV18 interviewed Prayag Jha, an employee who was laid off by an Indian startup. He said that as the job market remains tense, he has resorted to take a low paying job. “I am the sole earning member in my family of four. I can’t just survive on my savings for long and keep on preparing for tests and interviews, I have a family to feed, school fees and EMIs to pay,” said Jha.

Meanwhile, Shiva Prasad Nanduri, Chief Business Officer at Teamlease Digital, who said that the hiring is expected to be muted in the coming quarter, with volume being 25%-30% lower than last year, with the changing geo-political scenerios and macro-economic headwinds.

As per data by Layoffs.fyi, so far globally more than 160,000 employees have been laid off in 2023. In India as per data by Inc42, since startups started laying off in 2022, over 25,000 employees have been laid off till date. Similarly, data from foundit insights tracker has shown that recruitment in IT hardware and software declined 20% year-on-year and 4 percent month-on-month.