{"id":68355,"date":"2026-06-10T02:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/68355\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:46:14","slug":"tcs-will-have-as-many-ai-agents-as-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/68355\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018TCS will have as many AI agents as employees\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u2018TCS BENGALURU: TCS chairman N Chandrasekaran<\/a> said the IT industry will no longer hire at the scale seen over the past two decades as artificial intelligence takes over parts of traditional work, signalling a structural shift for India\u2019s $315-billion technology sector. \u201cThe company will not be hiring the kind of numbers it used to hire,\u201d Chandrasekaran said at TCS\u2019s 31st annual general meeting held virtually on Tuesday.He said AI agents would increasingly work alongside employees and could eventually match the size of the human workforce. \u201cThe company will have an equal number of AI workers\u2014which we call AI agents\u2014as there are employees. If the company has half a million employees, the day is not far when the company will have half a million AI agents,\u201d he said.\"\u2018TCSBank stocks rally as RBI pushes for forex assetsBank stocks rally as RBI pushes for forex assetsThe remarks come as India\u2019s IT services industry grapples with the implications of GenAI automating parts of software development including testing and application maintenance\u2014functions that have historically fuelled large-scale hiring by Indian IT firms.Chandrasekaran, however, rejected the premise that AI would diminish the industry\u2019s long-term prospects. \u201cThat does not mean there are no future opportunities. Once the transition happens, the AI world will produce many more opportunities. There will be new talent that will be required,\u201d he said. \u201cSome of the work being done today will go to AI agents. That will be the nature of the transition that we have to go through not only as a company, but as an industry and as a country. We need to build a lot of AI skills so people can be gainfully employed.\u201dThe comments come at a time when investors are questioning the future of IT services in an AI-driven world. The concern has weighed heavily on technology stocks. \u201cIndia\u2019s Nifty IT index fell more than a third. Globally, shares in technology services and platform companies plummeted,\u201d he said. Yet, the industry\u2019s operating performance tells a different story. \u201cMargins have held. Revenues are up. The deal pipeline is stronger than ever. The business fundamentals have held.\u201dAccording to Chandrasekaran, investors are misreading the relationship between AI and IT services. \u201cAI does more than reduce effort. It is an infrastructure of intelligence,\u201d he said.\u201cFar from being a mortal threat, AI is the most significant opportunity yet for enterprise IT,\u201d he added.He identified five major growth areas for IT services firms: modernising legacy technology systems, redesigning business processes around AI, governing AI agents, building sovereign AI infrastructure, and deploying AI in physical environments such as factories, warehouses and supply chains.<\/p>\n

Paytm to hire 4,000 even as it cuts jobs<\/p>\n

Paytm plans to hire about 4,000 employees over the next nine months as it expands its merchant network and accelerates investments in artificial intelligence, according to a Bloomberg report. The recruitment drive, running through March next year, will focus on product, technology, AI and leadership roles. The company has already added more than 800 employees over the past two months, Bloomberg reported, citing a company statement. At the same time, Paytm will trim about 1% of its workforce after the current appraisal cycle, affecting roughly 400 employees based on its current headcount of around 40,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENGALURU: TCS chairman N Chandrasekaran said the IT industry will no longer hire at the scale seen over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[405,17660,7537,38207,38208,37779,37844],"class_list":["post-68355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agentic-ai","tag-ai-agents","tag-ai-in-software-development","tag-artificial-intelligence-agents","tag-artificial-intelligence-in-it","tag-it-industry-hiring-trends","tag-n-chandrasekaran","tag-tcs-ai-agents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}