India, Oct. 9 -- Only 1%, or 6,000 people, have been affected by TCS layoffs, Chief HR Officer Sudeep Kunnumal said on Thursday, but the factsheets of the company's latest quarterly results tell a different story altogether.

"A lot of these numbers are not factual, are extremely exaggerated" and "should be disregarded", Kunnumal told PTI after TCS' second-quarter results, adding that the company is "not chasing a number". "As we speak today, we are close to 1% of people that we have released in mid- and senior-level, whom we could not redeploy in the right role."

He was responding to a question on the true scale ofTCS layoffs, given the widespread fears that the numbers could be as high as 50,000-80,000.

But the factsheet released byTa...