Topic
Labour market
-
News Work & careers
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%.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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.
-
News Work & careers
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%.
-
News Work & careers
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.