Age Catches Up With Infosys, TCS as Automation Enters Workforce

India's top two IT companies—Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) and Infosys Ltd—are seeing a sharp decline in their young workforce, raising concerns over the sustainability of the traditional employee pyramid model.

- Jas Bardia

The shrinking number of employees under 30, which shows up in the companies' annual reports, could indicate that automation is eliminating many entry-level jobs and signals broader shifts in the IT services market, analysts said.

At the end of FY25, just 47.7% of TCS employees in India were below 30, down from 59% in FY22. This implies it had 44,542 fewer young employees than it had three years earlier. About three-fourths of TCS's 607,979 workers are in India.

Infosys shows a similar pattern. Only 52% of its 323,578 employees were equal to or under 30 years of age at the end of FY25, down from 60% in FY22—a net drop of about 17,609 younger employees.

Young graduates are increasingly drawn to startups, captive tech centers of global firms like Google and Microsoft, and software product makers thanks to better pay, faster growth, and more creative work, analysts added.