Satyam on Wednesday made a shocking disclosure of fudging of accounts by its founder Ramalinga Raju, who then quit as Chairman, leaving an uncertain future for the company and its 53,000 employees.

Raju, in a statement on Wednesday, said Satyam's profits had been massively inflated over many years but no other board member was aware of the financial irregularities.

The timing of this news is the most unfortunate part about it given the fragile state of the global economy, Hay Group's Thompson said.

The scandal will damage corporate India's reputation, may have implications for the whole BPO and IT Services sector and would certainly give some ‘hotheads in the US a little more ammunition to use against the logic of outsourcing to India,’ Thompson said.

"However, there will not be a long term impact on the employer-employee relationship. Instead, we may get tied up with a series of reviews into corporate governance and a host of new regulations attempting to prevent this kind of thing from happening again," Thompson added.

Another global staffing services firm Manpower said at this point of time ‘employees should assess their current skill sets and explore the opportunities in sectors showing positive hiring intent like energy, telecom and mining.’

Executive search firm Headhunters India's CEO Krish Lakshmikanth has said the company might lay off over 10,000 employees by the next month as it has little cash to pay salaries.

"It is most likely that Satyam will cut 10,000 jobs next month as the company is left with no cash to pay the salaries. The current fiasco is likely to put pressure on salaries, which may reduce by 10 per cent due to the surplus of about 20,000 people in the jobs market," Lakshmikanth said.

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