The trend of multi-billion-dollar tech companies announcing mass layoffs earned the disapproval of junior IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday, as he invited Indians sacked by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft to return and join firms like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). "So-called Big Tech companies treating their employees and treating their workforce in what is really quite a shabby manner is obviously not agreeable to any one of us," Mr Chandrasekhar told NDTV.
"Our whole tech economy is growing so fast... we are limited by the availability of talent. I have addressed two groups of people who've been laid off recently, and I've said to them, come back to India because every company in the startup ecosystem is looking for world-class talent," he said.