HCLTech joins Indian IT firms losing Google work amid vendor consolidation

When Google's new head of Internal Systems began consolidating the company's sprawling vendor ecosystem, the decision sent quiet tremors through India's IT services industry. HCLTech, a pillar of that industry, found itself among the firms losing ground — not through failure, but through a structural shift in how technology giants now conceive of partnership and labor. The episode is less a story about one company's misfortune than a signal of a deeper reckoning: the age of scaling human effort as a competitive advantage may be giving way to an age where software replaces the need for that eff