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TCS CEO K Krithivasan Says AI Will Not Reduce Overall Headcount Following Strong Q1 Hiring

Sabyasachi Chandra

TCS CEO K Krithivasan pushed back against AI job loss fears, asserting that roles will simply evolve into prompt engineering and model lifecycle management.

The reassurances follow robust Q1 FY27 results, where TCS added 9,279 employees—its highest quarterly net addition in nearly four years.

The company's annualized AI revenue run rate surged to $2.6 billion, driven by rapid enterprise deployments and new ecosystem partnerships.

Krithivasan's optimism conflicts with recent statements from Chairman N Chandrasekaran, who predicted that widespread AI agents will eventually decrease hiring.

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