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Merger and acquisition (M&A) plays a vital role in corporate finance by enabling firms achieve varied objectives and financial strategies. The explosion of bank M&A has been a global phenomenon. In many emerging economies including India, bank M&A has often been driven by government policies to improve stability in the financial system. In this regards, our study aim is to examine the impact of pre and post M&A on the bank employees productivity of the largest merger of Four banks Viz., Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Union Bank of India and Indian Bank with six other banks in India (2017-2024) on 1st April 2020. The analysis was carried out as comparison of pre merger period (2017-2020) and post-merger period(2020-2024) ie., four years prior and four years after the merger period. The analysis was carried out to know the mean and standard deviation and paired t -test was applied to know significant difference in the selected variable via., Deposit per employee and advance per employee. The study concluded that merger and acquisition led to increase in the productivity of employees and there is significant difference in the means of pre and post merger period.