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Dipti Vachani takes charge as Adeia chief executive under transition agreement
Semiconductor licensing firm Adeia seated former Arm executive Dipti Vachani as chief executive on 12 October, while retaining outgoing officer Paul Davis through a $183,000 advisory retainer.
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HCLTech adds 6,450 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 230,339
India's third-largest IT services exporter reversed recent headcount contractions with 6,450 net additions in the September quarter as trailing attrition moderated to 12.8%.
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US Labor Department suspends PERM processing for eight technology employers
The administrative freeze halts permanent residency certifications across consulting and software firms pending compliance audits.
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TCS adds 5,726 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 612,724
India's largest software exporter recorded its second consecutive quarter of net hiring, reaching 612,724 staff as enterprise demand stabilized.
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Six percent of UK businesses using AI report cutting staff, ONS finds
Thirty percent of UK companies now deploy artificial intelligence, but net employment reductions remain concentrated in a small minority of adopting employers.
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Azenta shutters three laboratories and cuts jobs in North American restructuring
The life sciences automation provider expects up to $13 million in pre-tax charges, including $3 million for severance, as it consolidates facilities.
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Staffing firm tracks 123,000 active tech job openings in India, an 18-month high
Openings rose 5% from September, driven by 66,000 active listings in IT services.
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HubSpot cuts about 7% of its workforce, roughly 660 roles, in a restructuring
The software company expects up to $75 million in charges as it flattens operations for customer outcomes.
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US information-industry jobs were 2.74 million in September, 120,000 fewer than a year before
The BLS counts September's fall of 10,000 as little change, as it does for every major industry. The year's drop was 4.2%, and computer systems design lost 32,200 jobs over the same year.
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UK digital-sector jobs were estimated at 1.81 million in 2025, a rise within the survey's margin of error
The government's estimate is up from 1.77 million in 2024, after a fall of 120,000 the year before. It warns that the change has not been tested and may be sampling noise.
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California bars employers from firing on an AI system's say-so alone, and from AI that reads workers' emotions
Four workplace bills signed on 30 September also add AI to layoff notices and ban surveillance in workplace bathrooms. The human-review rule starts on 1 July 2027.
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A second US court blocks the agencies' rules for the $100,000 H-1B fee until they take public comment
A California federal judge vacated the policies that collect the fee and barred the agencies from enforcing them until they go through notice-and-comment rulemaking. The fee's proclamation was extended in September.
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AI chip company Blaize cuts about 26% of its staff to save up to $8.4 million a year
The Nasdaq-listed maker of processors for AI inference filed the cuts with the SEC. It employed 254 people at the end of 2025; the filing gives no number.
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US information-industry job openings were 123,000 in August, a rise the BLS counts as little change
July's figure was revised down to 78,000 from 96,000. Hires in the industry fell to 44,000, the fewest of the five months the release shows.
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69% of US information-industry workers worked at home at least sometimes in 2024-25, official survey finds
Only finance was higher. Across all US employees, 34% worked at home at least occasionally, and 57% could vary when they started and finished work.
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In 34 of 37 countries, more people expect AI to mean fewer jobs than more, Pew survey finds
Worry runs highest in wealthy countries: around seven in ten adults or more in Australia, South Korea and the US expect job losses over the next 20 years.
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UK job vacancies in information and communication were 36,000 this summer, about half their 2022 peak
The official count was unchanged on a year earlier. Across the whole UK economy, vacancies fell to 702,000, the lowest since early 2021.
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Cambium Networks cuts 260 jobs, 53.6% of its staff, with no severance, as its UK arm enters administration
The maker of wireless broadband and Wi-Fi equipment filed the cuts with the SEC. Administrators will try to sell some or all of its business lines.
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The US information industry lost 23,000 jobs in August, nearly three times its monthly average
The official count was led by data processing and web hosting. Over the year to August, the industry has 115,000 fewer jobs, a fall of 4.0%.
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The Trade Desk is cutting about 15% of its workforce, its SEC filing says
The advertising-technology company had 3,843 full-time employees at the end of 2025. It expects $39 million to $51 million in severance costs.
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Zscaler to cut about 3% of its staff to move people to AI work, its SEC filing says
The security company, which had over 8,700 employees in July, expects $30.0 million to $33.0 million in charges, mostly severance.
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Job openings in the US information industry were 96,000 in July, down from 157,000 a year earlier
Openings across the US economy were little changed at 7.3 million. In the information industry, the openings rate fell from 5.2% to 3.3% in a year.
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The first H-1B lottery weighted by wage level filled next year's cap, USCIS says
Registrations for higher-paid jobs had better odds for the first time. Certain petitions also need the $100,000 payment required since September 2025.