Big Tech Treating Employees Shabbily Not Agreeable: Junior IT Minister

The minister said he had not spoken to the companies because most of them were US-based, but he had "reached out to those who are having a tough time".

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.

"I think there is a growing realization that India is the place to be for the next few years as a digital economy and the opportunities, economy expand, and that you don't necessarily have to make the long trip to Silicon Valley," Mr Chandrasekhar said.