Wipro sacks 452 entry-level employees for poor performance, says it spent this much money training them

Continuing the trend of mass layoffs at tech companies, the most recent to join the spree after the likes of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, is Indian IT services firm Wipro. The company has sacked 452 entry-level employees after ‘they performed poorly in assessments repeatedly even after training’, said the company in a statement. The termination letter sent to the employees stated that ‘despite adequate training, they have failed to perform’. It also stated that they were liable to pay a fee of Rs 75,000 in order to compensate for the amount Wipro spent on training them. However, the company, in the same mail, waived off the fee. “We wish to inform you that training cost of Rs 75,000 which you are liable to pay, will be waived off,” the letter noted.