About 9,000 jobs are to be shed by Microsoft in its latest round of layoffs as the company looks to adopt more AI and streamline management and sales.
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Amazon investment in UK totals £40bn between 2025 and 2027, creating thousands of new jobs, mainly outside of London and the South East.
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The rush to improve productivity by using AI could lead to significant errors, a business academic has warned, as Amazon concedes that jobs will be lost.
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Migrant workers in IT and engineering professionals have a positive financial impact on the UK, finds MAC study.
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Tech giant Microsoft is to reduce the size of its global workforce by 3%, despite strong results in its latest quarter.
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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.Â
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Google is to pay $28m (£21.5m) to settle racial bias claims against the business, according to lawyers involved in the case.
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Tech workers union Prospect is calling for a review into the diversity policies of US multinationals operating in the UK.
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Google owner Alphabet says it will no longer set hiring targets to improve workforce diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
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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.
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AI skills will drive the most significant shifts in learning and development next year, according to a technology trends report from O’Reilly.
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The government plans to recruit start-up workers from the tech industry to embed a more innovative culture and help it run more efficiently.
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Workers at Amazon's AWS unit have written to their CEO urging for a reversal of its full-time return to office policy.
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The firm, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, dismissed the employees, some of whom were on six-figure salaries, from its Los Angeles offices.
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There has been an increase in technology and creative sector employers on the Social Mobility Index for 2024.