Tech sector

Tech giant Microsoft is to reduce the size of its global workforce by 3%, despite strong results in its latest quarter.

Job adverts for tech roles have plummeted in the UK over the past five years, with a 50% decline in tech job ads since 2019. 

Google is to pay $28m (£21.5m) to settle racial bias claims against the business, according to lawyers involved in the case.

Tech workers union Prospect is calling for a review into the diversity policies of US multinationals operating in the UK.

Google owner Alphabet says it will no longer set hiring targets to improve workforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

Facebook owner Meta has told staff it will cut around 5% of its global workforce, and will use the company’s performance management system to do so.

AI skills will drive the most significant shifts in learning and development next year, according to a technology trends report from O’Reilly.

The government plans to recruit start-up workers from the tech industry to embed a more innovative culture and help it run more efficiently.

Workers at Amazon's AWS unit have written to their CEO urging for a reversal of its full-time return to office policy.

The firm, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, dismissed the employees, some of whom were on six-figure salaries, from its Los Angeles offices.

There has been an increase in technology and creative sector employers on the Social Mobility Index for 2024.

“Outdated policies” will be scrapped in a bid to tackle the recruitment crisis facing the armed forces, the defence secretary announces.

Firm at the heart of the Post Office Horizon scandal will not offer pay increases to staff this year.

Retail giant Amazon has awarded a pay deal for its tens of thousands of UK employees worth nearly 10%.

Klarna has shrunk its workforce by more than 1,000 employees during the last year as it ramps up its use of artificial intelligence (AI).