Union of IT and ITES Employees (UNITE) staged a protest in Chennai against TCS' 12,000 layoffs, which will impact mid and senior-level employees. Images showed protestors holding placards calling TCS CEO K Krithivasan 'Chief of Cruelty' and 'Chief of Corporate Greed'. As a UNITE member said the layoffs may affect "30,000-40,000 employees" at the end, TCS called the statement "misleading".