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It's possible for us to protect jobs of youngsters if senior execs take salary cuts, says Infosys' N R Narayana Murthy

Speaking to a news channel on the ongoing layoffs into the IT industry, Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy said that it was possible for all IT companies to protect the jobs of youngsters if their senior management executives take some salary cuts.

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It's possible for us to protect jobs of youngsters if senior execs take salary cuts, says Infosys' N R Narayana Murthy
"There are a lot of smart leaders in the industry, but I have no doubt at all that they are all well-intentioned people and they can find solutions," Murthy said to a news channel. Image Source: IANS
By ZeeBiz WebTeam
Updated: Fri, Jun 02, 2017
10:43 am
Mumbai , ZeeBiz WebDesk
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Highlights: 

1. There is no need for us to become extremely anxious and we have had solutions to such problems in the past, says Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy

2. I have a feeling that it is possible for us to protect the jobs of youngsters if the senior management people were to make some minor adjustments, says Murthy  

 
With several IT companies continuing layoffs of employees into the sector whereby affecting the jobs, homegrown IT software services major Infosys co-founder N R Naryana Murthy on Thursday advised senior executives to take pay cuts in their salaries to protect the jobs of youngsters, PTI reported.

Murthy also said this is not for the first time that the industry has faced the layoff problem and hence there should not be any extreme anxiety as the industry had dealt the issue and found solutions then, it said.

"Let us remember we have gone through this several times in the past. We went through that in 2008, in 2001. So, this is nothing new. Therefore, there is no need for us to become extremely anxious. We have had solutions to such problems in the past," the report said quoting Murthy as stating to the news channel ET Now.

He showed confidence on the potential of the leaders in the industry to solve this issue and to come out with solutions.

Murthy's latest solutions to tackle the layoffs in the IT industry came in time when IT software majors like TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, Tech Mahindra and HCL mulling layoffs in thousands on the basis of "non-performance" and disruptive technologies like automation, artificial intelligence and cloud computing making many of the processes redundant, IANS reported.

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"There are a lot of smart leaders in the industry, but I have no doubt at all that they are all well-intentioned people and they can find solutions," Murthy said to a news channel. 

Murthy citing an example of how Infosys tackled the layoff problem in the past he said the company could protect the jobs of youngsters after executives at senior management level took pay cuts.

"I have a feeling that it is possible for us to protect the jobs of youngsters if the senior management people were to make some minor adjustments - adjustment of taking salary cuts," the report said quoting Murthy as saying to the channel.

ALSO READ: IT industry in India will continue to witness layoffs at low-end skills for next 18 months: Experts

The senior-most people at the internal director level took the highest pay cut, and then to follow suit was the senior vice president who took a slightly lower cut, he added.

Murthy said Infosys did this in 2001 when the market shrunk by citing an another example.

"Let me give you example of Infosys itself. When the market became very tough and it shrank actually in 2001. We all sat together with senior management and then we said - look let us make some sacrifice and ensure that we protect the jobs of youngsters," the report said quoting Murthy as saying.

"That time we had offered jobs to 1,500 engineers. Several companies were postponing the joining day. We said let us not do that, let us demonstrate the commitment to youngsters by senior people taking some salary cuts based on the disposable income as we go down the hierarchy and welcome those 1,500 engineers," he added.

Murthy also said parallelly, industry leaders will identify new areas of opportunity and mount training programmes to train youngsters and give them enough opportunities to pick up technologies and ask them to work hard and ensure they are in a position to add value to the company in next one year, and if they failed they could look out for another job.

"It is not fair to simply send somebody home, and then let them become very very anxious, because they may have families depending on them. They may have children, parents, spouses and all that, so it is incumbent on leaders of the industry to find reasonable solutions..." he said.

ALSO READ: 'IT to layoff up to 2 lakh engineers annually for next three years'

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