Droop in Indian IT jobs not because of Trump! Read why

Off late, there have been numerous reports on Indian IT and outsourcing firms firing employees. However, unlike what everyone is thinking, US President Donald Trump is not to be blamed for this.


The firing trend is a result of the disinterest that global corporations, who hold the moneybags of Indian software vendors, have developed in application development and maintenance. While this has been going on for the last five years, the results are only more visible now.

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Talking of the slump in IT industry, while Cognizant has let go of, or offered voluntary retirement to a major part of its workforce, Infosys too will fire some of its staff post the bi-annual appraisals.

Similarly, Wipro and Tech Mahindra are also either firing employess or handing them single-digit appraisals citing cash crunch.

As per an analysis from Bloomberg Intelligence, this was expected since digital products are now driving the growth of the IT services industry. In India, even the established IT companies like TCS and Wipro have merely 18 and 22% share of digital. This number goes up to 42 to 45% at IBM Corp. and Accenture.

This means that the fall in the Indian IT industry is primarily because of abundant technologies and not Trump, who was not even elected as POTUS when this all started.

The only way to save the falling IT industry is if the companies start hiring for and investing in the right technologies, say experts.