According to reports, tech giant Cognizant is laying off employees across a number of its locations in India. IT employee unions allege it is at least several hundreds. All India Forum for IT Employees, in a communication to the labour department and other government officials, said that some 18,000 employees are on the bench (those without projects), and many of them could be affected. In October last year, CEO Brian Humphries had announced that the company would be parting with some 13,000 employees in the coming months, including about 6,000 from the content moderation business that Cognizant does for Facebook. He had said they would try to reskill some 5,000 of these employees and redeploy them in other areas.