Infosys, TCS join global tech-reskilling drive for 1 million workers

Move aims to address job displacement arising from automation and Fourth Industrial Revolution

Indian information technology giants TCS and Infosys have joined a global drive for tech reskilling of one million workers in the first such IT industry initiative. The exercise, whose founding partners also include Accenture, CA Technologies, Cisco, Cognizant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Pegasystems, PwC, Salesforce, and SAP, aims to bring competitive training content on one platform to serve the greater good.

The initiative will be targeting one million people for training and resource opportunities on the World Economic Forum (WEF) SkillSET portal by January 2021. The IT Industry Skills Initiative was launched here by the WEF to meet the global skills