Warning signals are louder for the Indian technical talents fund. UDIT Goenka, founder and CEO of Tinycheque, published on X that IT initial level developers will try to find jobs in 2025. His advice for fresh graduates? “Focus on building live products and make them open source. That's the only way to show off your talent and land.”
Its caution comes at a time when it can be in the core of the AI wave more reinforced concerns about the future of white collar employment in India.
The founder of Atomberg Arindam Paul recently sounded an alarm about what he sees as an imminent employment crisis in India. In a detailed post of LinkedIn Paul, he wrote: “Almost 40-50 percent of jobs that exist today could stop exist,” he warns that such a drastic shift would mean the end of the Indian middle class and its consumption economy.
His remarks reflect the recent warnings by Zho Sidhara Vembu, who was loud about the vulnerability of Indian software jobs in the rapidly automation world.
“I don't think most people, including our leaders, still understand how much threat can be for our economy,” Paul added, showing specifically to displace the roles of white collars.
According to Paul, this is a root problem beyond AI – it is an Indian insufficiently developed manufacturing sector. “Our production is nowhere close to where it should be in terms of generating jobs that pay 3-6 lamps per year,” he said, pointing out the lack of an industrial pillow that absorbs displaced workers.
Paul did not abstain from criticizing Indian basic sectors – IT and BPO – and predicted “a large reduction in labor and in many cases in their business”. He explained that while companies like infosys can adapt, their employment scope will reduce. “There will not be almost as many people as they do,” he said honestly.
He also focused on corporate enthusiasm for AI. “While all businesses are happy today that AI will reduce the workforce and increase efficiency and improve the lower line, they forget that there will be no upper line without jobs and money in consumer hands,” he warned.
Despite the bleak view, Paul said, “I hope none of this will happen, and our GDP continues to grow both at the absolute and head level, but I also think it is the most likely scenario for India if we really do not get to production.”
