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IT layoffs: Technology is biggest threat for technology workers in India

Nasscom, McKinsey India found that 50 to 70 per cent of workers' skills would be irrelevant by 2020

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Nida Najar | NYT Pune
Last month, Sudhakar Choudhari took the company bus as usual from his one-bedroom apartment to the suburban offices of Tech Mahindra, a major employer of workers in India that powers the global technology machine behind the scenes. Then a manager took him into a conference room and asked him to resign.

“It was a terrible scene for me,” said Choudhari, 41, who had been with the company for 11 years and most recently maintained software for a British client. As the manager spoke, he thought: “I have an 11-year-old child. My wife is not working. How to pay the home