Infosys has said it will focus on reskilling its workforce instead of cutting jobs to deal with changes brought by artificial intelligence (AI). Salil Parekh, CEO, Infosys has said that the company is seeing strong demand from clients in areas where it has good skills such as AI, cloud, and enterprise platforms.
Speaking after recent layoffs announced by rival TCS, Parekh has made it clear that Infosys is not planning job cuts. Instead, the company is planning to hire around 20,000 fresh graduates in FY26. Infosys has already trained more than 2,75,000 employees at different levels in AI and related technologies.
Parekh reportedly shared how Infosys has “been deeply focused on AI transformation, whether it’s building AI agents or developing smaller language models internally.” According to him, automation is creating new roles and reskilling will help employees move into these areas, just like Infosys did during the earlier digital transformation phase.
The company has also raised its revenue growth guidance for FY26 to 1 per cent to 3 per cent in constant currency, up from the earlier lower end of 0 per cent. The global economy, especially in Europe and the US, is stabilising, and Infosys expects stronger growth as the environment becomes more stable.
With automation changing the IT industry, Infosys believes demand will shift toward specialised skills in AI, data, and cloud. The company’s graduate hiring programme and high staff deployment will continue to support delivery for clients.
Infosys maintains that learning and adapting remain key in today’s fast-changing market, and reskilling will open new opportunities for its employees.