TCS employee suspended after reporting security incident to company: 'HR and managers will not help me'

The TCS employee said that his suspension was against the company policy, which said that no action can be taken against a whistleblower. (Representational Image).

A Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employee said that he had been suspended after reporting a security incident to the company. The employee took to Reddit to narrate the incident where he said that his manager had asked staffers to use their personal laptops and share login credentials.

"I reported a security incident in TCS where my manager was making employees use their personal laptops and sharing login credentials," the staffer wrote on the platform.

The employee said that his suspension was against the company policy, which said that no action can be taken against a whistleblower and added that he would not receive any help from either his manager or human resources as he wasn't in good terms with them.

"According to the TCS whistleblower policy no action can be taken against whistleblower but today I received a suspension notice. Some background: my HR and managers will not help me because of poor relations," the employee wrote.

The TCS staffer's post regarding his suspension from the company. (Image credit: Reddit/developersIndia).

The post saw a lot of replies from users, who offered suggestions of the next steps that can be taken.

"Raise it on LinkedIn. Tagging higher officials of Tata group. (Not only TCS). All this act is against, Tata code of conduct. Spread this like a wild fire on x, LinkedIn and other social media platforms," one user wrote.

"Raise this issue with TCS ethics committee. They will definitely look into this. When I was in TCS ILP I remember there was an altercation between the faculty and one of the associate from our batch. The faculty told the associate that they will fail him in the finals and they did. He reported them to ethics committee and a team came to ILP center to investigate. The associate was later passed," another user wrote.

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