India's second largest software company Infosys has "released" 8,000-9,000 employees within a year owing to the automation of lower end jobs.
“We have been releasing about 2,000 people every quarter and also training them in special courses that will help them in their new assignments,” Infosys HR Head Krishnamurthy Shankar said on sidelines of an event in Bengaluru.
While agreeing that the hiring may considerably come down due to automation, he said that 5,700 people in the first nine months of this fiscal, compared to about 17,000 in the same period last year.
"Infosys' total employee strength actually declined - an extremely rare occurrence for India's No. 2 IT services company. The total strength fell by 66 to 1,99,763, " he added.
Sectors that will be highly impacted due to automation will be BPO, application management and infrastructure management.
Wipro’s Global HR head Saurabh Govil had said in November that the company released 3,200 people through automation to do more innovative work.
