TCS new deployment policy now limits bench period to 35 days

(RNS, 18-06-25) The country's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in its updated talent deployment policy, has limited bench period to 35 days for its employees and also mandates that a minimum of 225 business days annually be billed.

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This means the productivity expectations are increasing and that the company wants to fully utilise its existing bench strength.

In IT firms, new recruits who are undergoing training or employees between projects apart from those who are undergoing performance evaluation are 'benched'. Those on the bench are usually given training programmes and they need to wait for new projects.