Women Employees: The Missing Women Of TCS

With back to office becoming a norm, some women are choosing to sacrifice work.

- RUKMINI RAO

IN ITS FY23 ANNUAL report, Tata Consultancy Services, the largest employer in the IT services space, made an interesting observation about the attrition of women employees at the company. To set the context, the company had over 2.2 lakh women employees at the end of FY23, making up for 35.7% of the 6.14 lakh workforce, compared with 2.1 lakh a year ago, where women made up for 35.6% of the 5.92 lakh workforce. TCS' overall attrition rate for FY23 stood at 20.1%.

That may not seem unusual. But a look at disaggregated data by geographies throws up some interesting observations. In FY23, women under the age of 30 employed in India were just 22.6% of the workforce, compared with 25% in FY22, a decline of 240 basis points. In other geographies such as Europe, North America and the U.K., their share (under 30 years) fell to 6.5%, 5.3% and 9.8% of the workforce, respectively, in FY23, against 9%, 7% and 10% in FY22.