As India’s IT firms are maturing, their workforces seem to be maturing too.
The percentage of Infosys employees aged 30 or below has fallen from 81% in 2010 to 53% now. The percentage of employees aged between 30 and 50 has risen from 18% to 44% in the corresponding period. The percentage of employees aged above 50 has increased from 0.4% to 3%.
These trends have been gradual, with most years seeing the percentage of younger employees fall and older employees rise. The percentage of employees aged under 30 had risen sharply from 55% to 60% between 2021 to 2022, driven likely by the post-Covid fresher hirings that took place at tech companies. But since then, the numbers of employees under the age of 30 has again followed its declining trend, and is at its lowest level in 15 years.
Now Infosys was founded all the way back in 1981, so this decline in the percentage of young employees from 2010 to 2025 can’t be explained simply by a maturing workforce. It would appear that Infosys, over this period, wasn’t hiring young freshers at the rate it previously did — this would’ve caused the number of young employees to fall, while increasing the percentage of older employees.
And this trend might end up getting exacerbated at tech companies. AI has made it harder than ever for young graduates and entry-level employees to find work, with many companies realizing that the work that these employees did is the easiest to automate with AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that 50% of white-collar entry-level jobs could be automated by AI in the next five years. A Stanford study has found that AI is impacting entry-level jobs the most. Another Harvard study has said that AI is impacting junior roles more than senior roles. And with companies like Infosys already seeing the percentage of young employees fall substantially even before AI became mainstream, with the impact of AI, it might be harder than ever for young people to get a job in IT.