Flat or negative growth for IT sector in 2020 due to Covid-19: Infosys CFO

The Coronavirus pandemic is like a force majeure, and no amount of business continuity planning will help in this situation, he claimed

India's information technology sector is expected to post either flat or negative growth in 2020 due to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic globally, an IT industry veteran said onSaturday.

"Look at the economic activity (globally). Worse than what you have seen in 2008 (global financial crisis).

So, clients (of Indian IT companies) are not going to increase spending (on IT) or even maintain the current spending," the former Chief Financial Officer of IT major, Infosys Ltd, V Balakrishnan told PTI.

There will be cut in spending, and could be pressure on pricing because all the major industries including retail and financial services