After its questionable pay practices Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) one of India’s largest IT multinational corporations is once again facing criticism. As Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) completes its first 35-day cycle on Thursday under the new bench policy anxiety is palpably sweeping across many of the companys unassigned employees. Thousands are sitting without projects and dont know what will happen next. The policy was rolled out on June 12. The new policy only allows employees to stay on the benched or unassigned list for 35 days a year. After this period the employee may face serious implications such as their career stall or termination. This has created a sense of anxiousness among the TCSs cadre of employees. TCS has a new rule that restrictions how long its employee is allowed to be on the bench - which is the term mostly used to explain a time without a project. From June 12 the maximum time an employee can be on the bench is only 35 days within a year. At any given point in time associates must be allocated for a minimum period of 225 business days in the last 12 months failing which necessary due diligence and appropriate management action will be exercised the policy document said reported NDTV. Concerns from TCS employees are flooding into Reddit and other digital platforms. Some employees are actively looking for other roles while others say they are being placed into roles unrelated to their expertise. Still others say they have received rejections in client interviews or can’t find projects in their home cities as seen through the many posts found on the site. The total number of employees affected by the new policy is unknown. Nevertheless industry estimates put the proportion of employees at the top Indian IT companies on the bench at about 15-18% on average. Given that TCS (the No. 1 IT company in India with close to 613000 employees) could have a significant impact due to the number of employees who are either out of viewing explicit of working. An employee welfare group has written to Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to request his cooperation to act immediately. The group slammed the TCS enforced bench policy and labelled it - inhumane exploitative as well as mentally hard for IT professionals.