Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) has asked about 500 of its employees to look for another job (i.e. resign voluntarily) as they did not meet the performance requirements of the company. In last quarter, TCS appointed 4,037 employees, taking its total headcount to 108,229.[via reuters]
Companies like Infosys also has a similar policy, but employees are asked to leave only after giving them more time to improve and evaluating them with various criteria on a regular basis using Personal Improvement Programmes.
Does this imply that the recruitment process of TCS is not up to the mark? Due to the shortage of human resources, are they just recruiting freshers from college without conducting good tests and interviews? This issue could either be classified as low quality of the new generation engineers or low quality of the TCS recruitment process? Either way, this could affect the career of those employees.
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Totally agree with Ranga. Heard the same from many of my friends working in TCS at manager levels. Came to know from them that ,not only people with a rating 2 were being removed from TCS, but also people with 3/5 and 4/5 rating are threatened and some are also being removed, if they happened to be on bench for more than 60 or 70 days (??). So, performance is not the yard stick at all, unlike what is being claimed by the TCS Higher Management. The worst part, i came to know was that if somebody goes on maternity leave she is bound to get a 2/5 or 1/5 and automatically she comes under the TCS layoff RADAR, unless she has some god father to take care. So, women employees of TCS be wary, if you want to go on procreation business. Another news, i came to know is that there is nothing called councelling or probation for the so called non-performers which TCS claims.
Lets Look at next step :
So if forced to resign then whats the best option from an employee perspective.
Get termination letter and avail benefits and open to claim/apeal or resign and take graceful exit.
I have been laid off from TCS
I have been working in TCS Bangalore from the past 6+ years. I have been asked by Regional head of HR to resign with in one week. The reason being I had received a 2 rating in a scale of 5 in the year 2005. I am entitled to one month basic upon submitting resignation.
My question is, is it not unfair for a person who has servered the company for 6+ years to be seperated without any severance package? I think they have to give atleast 1 month basic for every year of service.
This layoffs is happening suddenly from last week without any notice. In late Dec 2008 they have introduced a Performance Improvement Program, which says that people with 2 consecutive ratings of 2/5 should be put under 3 months probation and then seperated if no improvement is shown no where there is a policy in the company stating that people with a 2/5 rating in any of the pervious years should be removed.
What is actually happening is that the HR head of Bangalore(BBS) sends a mail from his official ID or calls from his mobile and asks people to meet him at his chamber. Upon reaching there he threatens the employees with dire consequences if they do not resign within one week, he says that if they dont resign they will be terminated and no other company would hire them with a termination record.
Many associates in the experience bracket of 3-8 years experince have been forced to resign already. Also heard unofficially that thousands may be sacked the same way.
This is pure layoff of senior staff to put in freshers in their place. Aren’t the people being layed off entitled to severance package so that they can sustain till they get another job is got in this slowdown.
Guess who is heading IBM, India now? Rajesh Nambiar, who joined IBM recently, from TCS. No wonder both TCS and IBM has a similar layoff style-decisions probably made with recession forecast.
Ajay,
You can always expect such things from the IT companies.
Some interesting questions have been asked here about this lay off. The culture of lay offs is still not entered India. The whole process has been critically examined here –
http://www.techbanyan.com/archives/147
Thats really bad step from TCS, we can never expect such a step from TCS. It was considered as government job, but it changed its moral.
Basically they are trying to save on expense.
I read on the TOI site …
So they are trying to save for the next Q as they wont be making much according to current market.