More than 500 employees working in India for US-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) services company Innodata have reportedly been laid off without prior notice on a single day.
Innodata is a major global data engineering and AI services firm headquartered in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. The company was founded in 1988 and specialises in providing generative and traditional AI training, post-training data annotation, model evaluation, and deployment services. The company’s website lists several major organisations among its customers, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Snowflake, Boeing and Deloitte.
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The laid-off employees were with Innodata India Private Limited, the Indian wing of Innodata. The layoffs also affected employees of the company in the Philippines.
Employees were shocked by the sudden job losses and scrambled for information about their employment status. According to reports, the layoffs took place on October 26. Several employees took to social media and said they logged in and marked their attendance as usual but began losing access to company laptops, official IDs and internal systems during the workday on October 26.
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Termination emails sent to the personal email accounts of the employees reportedly told them that October 26 had been recorded as their resignation date and that it was their last working day on the company’s HR portal. The termination letters also said that the employees’ final settlements would be processed after they returned company assets. Several employees posted screenshots of the layoff emails on X.
The company cited a reduction in business assignments as the reason for ending its Indian staff’s employment, stating that the decision was driven by operational requirements rather than individual performance.
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Industry sources said the job cuts could be linked to declining service volumes from a major client project, though it is yet to be independently confirmed. According to the Innodata’s 2025 annual report, it had 10,107 employees worldwide as of December 31, 2025.
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In the Philippines, employees of Innodata reported job losses across several roles, including raters, quality experts, team leaders and managers, reported NDTV. The company is yet to publicly confirm the total number of employees affected in India and the Philippines. It has also not provided any official statement about the reported layoffs.
