Why Indian tech and startup workers are more vulnerable than ever today
Channel: Peoples Dispatch
Date: 2022-07-26

The startup sector in India is facing a crisis. This year alone, nearly 12,000 employees have been laid off from their jobs by different startups. Many of these startups are unicorns, that is, they are valued at above $1 billion. Kiran Chandra, President at Forum of IT Professionals and General Secretary of the Free Software Movement of India talks about this worrying trend of layoffs in the Indian startup sector and how the new labor codes in India have made these layoffs possible.