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More job cuts likely in IT sector; Wipro, Infosys tighten appraisal process

Indian IT service providers such as Infosys and Wipro have tightened performance appraisals for employees, weeding out non performers, as they see business slow for traditional services, technology shifts towards digital and growing protectionism in their main markets.Wipro, India's third largest software exporter, has a programme Band Inertia, that looks at scrutinising employees for performance in the same band for longer periods, identify gaps to reskill and mark out those who are unable to upskill with newer technologies. "It is the first reflection of who you are, people got stuck in the same band for 7-8 years. The individual is not expecting to grow. If you are good, you get promoted or get another job somewhere else," Saurabh Govil, Head of Human Resources, Wipro, told Business Standard in an interview. "There are some people who continue to be here (in the same band) and be happy and they are getting impacted." Wipro says it upskills engineers in newer technologies such as .