Employees laid off in the US over the past year at marquee names, including Meta, Amazon and Microsoft, are finding it hard to get jobs back home in India in what appears to be a prolonged winter for tech jobs mirroring the unprecedented slump in the locally listed $280-billion outsourcing industry - the biggest on the planet.
According to data from specialised staffing firm Xpheno, close to 7,300 people have returned to India from the US so far in 2026. This was 15,100 in 2025 and 9,700 in 2024.
