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Automation hits technology jobs
Hindustan Times Pune
|November 21, 2025
BENGALURU: Automation is beginning to reshape India’s tech-hiring landscape, with global capability centres (GCCs) pulling back on routine recruitment—intensifying the slowdown already hitting large staffing firms dependent on information technology (IT) hiring.
GCCs are also pulling back on routine recruitment.
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This trend raises concerns for staffing and job-hunting firms including TeamLease Services Ltd, Quess Corp, and Info Edge (India) Ltd, as IT-related hiring by GCCs and IT services companies is among their biggest sources of business, fetching them up to 44% of their revenue.
“Most large scale GCCs that had expanded majorly over the past few years are now focus-sing on transforming their processes in areas of people man-
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