IT Job Cuts

In a rare move, Apple has trimmed its sales workforce to streamline operations; the company says it is still hiring and affected employees can look for new roles internally

The cuts are expected to be announced early next month, following the end of Microsoft's fiscal year

Stringent changes to the training test have led to a sharp rise in failure rates at Infosys. Out of 930 trainees who joined on October 7, only 160 passed on their first attempt

In 2024, nearly 150,000 workers across major tech companies, including Tesla, Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, are facing layoffs as these giants restructure and adapt to challenging economic conditions

Policymakers in New Delhi have their sight on China's factory-to-the-world crown. They are spending $24 billion over five years on production-linked incentives

It help firms cut costs by avoiding severance packages for resigning employees. Some 20,000 tech professionals in India may have lost jobs through 'silent' layoffs in 2023

The layoffs come after sluggish demand for its personal computers for nearly two years partly contributed to a 11% drop in revenue in fourth-quarter earnings posted last month

Google is increasing its reliance on its trust and safety staff, even if it's doing so with fewer people

The question now becomes whether leaner, more focused versions of Meta and Amazon can continue to strive for the bold and ambitious tech advancements that have made them household names

Separately, SAP reported a 5 per cent gain in fourth-quarter non-IFRS revenue to €8.47 billion ($9.2 billion)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai's remarks followed a day after the tech giant handed pink slips to around 1,000 employees in the advertising sales team in the first layoff wave of 2024

Since the beginning of 2021, tech companies have laid off over 405,000 individuals

Bengaluru is worst-affected among cities, even as it continues to top start-up fundraising

In May, another media report said that Oracle had laid off 3,000 employees at Cerner

In an exclusive interaction with Business Standard, Sridhar Vembu say the trend of large-scale layoffs in Silicon Valley has now hit Indian shores

Learning solutions provider TeamLease EdTech on Thursday said a large number of Indian employers have expressed their intention to hire freshers in the first half of this calendar year. According to TeamLease EdTech's Career Outlook Report for January-June 2023, in spite of the global gloom, Indian employers' intent to hire freshers has marginally increased by 3 per cent to 62 per cent, as compared to July-December 2022, when it stood at 59 per cent. TeamLease EdTech surveyed 874 large, medium and small businesses between October-November 2022 for this report. The top three industries with the most robust intent to hire freshers are information technology (67 per cent), e-commerce & technology startups (52 per cent) and telecommunications (51 per cent). Amongst the Tier I cities, Bengaluru comes at the top with maximum openings for freshers at 75 per cent, closely followed by Mumbai (56 per cent) and Delhi (47 per cent). "Even in the face of a global muted sentiments around team .

The screening tests may also get more stringent as the firms are under pressure to honour campus offers but are already overstaffed

Led by the technology sector, US-based employers announced 102,943 cuts in January, a massive 136 per cent increase from the 43,651 cuts announced in December, a new report has said

The massive layoffs by the tech companies this year alone have surpassed the levels from the Great Recession the world went through 2008-2009 that began with Lehman Brothers collapse

Many of the industry's clients closed their set-ups globally as part of containment measures to check coronavirus. Travel and hospitality, aviation, retail, auto and manufacturing hit the hardest