India has first seen its recession in 1958, then in 1966 and in 1980.
Now, India is facing it's fourth recession after the Independence and first ever after the liberalisation and perhaps the worst to date.

CRISIL (Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited) on 26th May, predicted that the economy will shrink by 5% in the current fiscal due to Covid-19 lockdown.

Many large companies in India have announced reduction of jobs, on account of contraction due to Covid-19 led lockdown.

On May US based cab company, Uber it would remove 600 full time employees in the India-South Asia region the majority of which are located in India, because of the lockdown and changing environment.

In overall, five companies - Uber India, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy, South Asia and Cure.fit - have collectively announced the reduction of 4,441jobs within the last one month.Ola laid-off around 1,400 employees on May.

The two largest food-tech companies Swiggy & Zomato also announced that they will layoff about 1,541 employees. Zomato wrote to the company's staffers that around 541 people have been asked to look for new jobs because the numbers of restaurant is expected to shrink in the next 6-12 months. Whereas, Swiggy announced they let go off 1,000 employees.

Now, the recent shocking news of laysoff by pinnacle IT companies increases the query of job redundancy, and what people must do if laid-off.

The top IT companies like Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, UiPath and IBM were some companies that laid-off employees stating various reasons.

But Indian IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Ltd., Wipro Ltd. And HCL Technologies Ltd. Night not have embraced any enormous layoffs however, performance based ways out could be occurring. 

The company's are laying-off thousands of employees on the grounds of absence of projects, non-performance and many other reasons. But one should also think that if the companies are laying-off 40 employees out of 100 employees then they are keeping 60 people as well.

Now, the question is why they are keeping those 60 employees and not the other 40 other employees?

There can be various reasons maybe these employees are capable of completing the given tasks on time, they might be more skillful.

Some other reasons ca be that technology is continually updating and with it, workers are additionally expected to get the hang of utilizing this innovation. 

What should the people do who have been laid-off?

A requirement for upskilling is essential for employeess not only in the IT sector but sectors as well to hold their employments. According to a PWC research, it is said that 79% of CEOs were stressed over the absence of basic abilities in their workforce. Not simply CEOs, each association is searching for representatives that reskill and upskill themselves so they can make the most out of developing innovations. 

As an IT employee, one ought to be continually upskilling themselves with new innovation aptitude, for example, learning another programming language, exploring on information science, taking a shot at man-made brainpower, and so on. 

With the way where things have finished in 2019, this year also may consider more to be as organizations move to receive advances, for example, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Internet of things (IoT) making a few employments excess. While representatives ought to know about redundancies in jobs, the congesting population of India will see a significant joblessness stage. 

For the time being, having some expertise in fields and working for merit ought to be the objective of IT employees.

What were the Innovations in the last Recession?
The ongoing breakdown of the securities exchange would show that we are entering a down economy. Monetary confusions from the worldwide coronavirus pandemic are now affecting differing businesses like neighborliness, development, diversion, retail, food administration, and numerous others. 

Slicing Through the Noise 

It's imperative to see how the subsidizing structure of the institutional funding market drives generally pioneering conduct in a downturn, and all the more explicitly, following a financial exchange crash. 

Your corporate advancement group ought to along these lines be accessible to pioneers in the association to clarify how your investment, M&A, or business improvement program can give sway in a downturn: 

Creating bits of knowledge to help get ready for the future, on the grounds that the current emergency will in the long run pass 

Organizing support for existing ventures 

Organizing common advantage with new businesses that will depend on corporate help like never before, which incorporates business exchanges without ventures, and possibly Mergers & Acquisition .

Seeking after new open doors at better valuations with committed new businesses that have less rivalry 

Barrier: Supporting Your Portfolio 

On the off chance that you have a current arrangement of advancement resources (counting acquisitions, adventure ventures, business improvement bargains, and even R&D ventures), your main concern ought to be to ensure what you effectively own, if there is still upside. Perceive that this is an obligation and will influence your notoriety .

1. What to Expect?

Proactive "belt fixing" by venture capitalists will more likely than not protract financing cycles by and large, and this will affect most outer pioneers that are now your venture accomplices or business accomplices. New businesses you've just obtained clearly won't be influenced by a more slow investment financing condition. 

2. What Your Company CEOs and Co-financial specialists May Be Thinking ?

Venture capitals have deserted portfolio organizations in earlier down cycles and your outside accomplices might be stressed over whether you will be there when they need you. This might be the biggest dread with respect to corporate trend-setters in the endeavor economy. 

Outer accomplices are likely stressed over their own money positions and suitability. Numerous VCs will prompt their portfolio organizations to take out extravagances and act rapidly to guarantee they can accommodate the rudiments. 

Overall, fear may be the best inspiration for your outside accomplices, while thinking about your current development portfolio. 

3. What You Should Do?

Realizing that dread might be vital, impart that you mean to organize support for existing ventures to quiet any potential fatigued nerves. Do this by interfacing with all your portfolio CEOs and co-financial specialists to give dependable initiative, remaining in a joint effort with the executive at every startup. Guarantee this is finished with ventures and business accomplices the same. 

Quicken the normal assessment of stores for your portfolio, which is generally done quarterly in most funding conditions. 

Urge your startup CEOs to listen cautiously to their clients, including those inside your organization, if important. 

When you've spoken with your accomplices, performed monetary investigation, and actualized controls, decide in favor of supporting business visionaries while cutting speculations that are not, at this point monetarily reasonable.