Indian IT firms use IBM churn and burn model to layoff 150000 IT workers above age 40.
This methid wa adopted by IBM from another indian company named Tech mahindra (a mahindra and mahindra group company #M&M) in 2009 -2010 to layoff 25000 employees in India to boost profit.
The latest drive to alter workforce age profile in India was driven by NASSCOM whcih first lobbied on belf of top IT services firms with Indian government to look other way as they impleted culling of older employees. IT services firm paid $100 million to ruling Indian political party to ensure inaction from government. They even showed false statistics by hiring campus hire replacements and claimed benefits for creation of new employment, by refilling just 20% of laid-off individuals.