Nandan Nilekani’s AI warning for IT professionals: Four IT job roles vanishing but five positions are growing fastAt Infosys’ Investor Day 2026, Infosys co-founder and chairman Nandan Nilekani said artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the ...
18 Feb, 2026, 10.49 AM IST
Employee gets tricked into doing two person job for a salary of one. 'I quietly absorbed the job without realizing'An employee has gone viral after sharing on Reddit that he slowly took over a former coworker’s responsibilities after management said they...
17 Feb, 2026, 10.36 PM IST
AI job loss: 40% of roles at risk, experts warnAI's rapid growth is raising alarms about job loss, with experts warning up to 40% of roles could be affected globally. While fears of disp...
07 May, 2025, 09.55 AM IST
Heading for a recession? A million jobs may have vanished in the USThe United States could be heading for another recession period as the job growth through March earlier was very slim and unemployment perc...
22 Aug, 2024, 07.17 AM IST
How Software and IT Jobs are disappearing in favour of AI and what is going to fill that vacuumAI and technology advancements threaten 400 million jobs globally, impacting India's IT sector. Addressing rising unemployment requires ski...
27 Apr, 2024, 10.55 AM IST
‘Quiet cutting’: A reassignment for your good, a subtle approach to layoffs, or a mix of both?"Quiet cutting" is a new workplace trend that involves reassigning employees to different positions within a company instead of firing or l...
24 Oct, 2023, 08.23 AM IST
Why we must 'Uberise' faster: We can either resist it and wonder where jobs vanished, or tailor it to our needsThe economy is being “uberised” (you could call it google-ised or amazonised or jio-ised, if you so prefer), where the middle function in m...
09 Oct, 2020, 11.59 AM IST
US unemployment rate spikes to 14.7%, highest since Great DepressionThe losses reflect what has become a severe recession caused by sudden business shutdowns in nearly every industry. Nearly all the job grow...
08 May, 2020, 06.38 PM IST
Middle-level telecom employees should be the most worriedAccording to a staffing expert, most of the cuts will be in the tech & engineering side, which typically command salaries between Rs 40,000...
03 Nov, 2017, 06.35 PM IST
Gold buyers fear price hike, rush to jewellery storesEarlier, the illegal bullion trade had a cost advantage by as much as 5%. From now onwards, under the GST regime, this cost advantage will ...
30 Jun, 2017, 10.33 AM IST
Threat of automation taking away your job is realThe Jobs Disruption Survey of nearly 11,000 employees by ET Online has found that a large number of employees see automation taking away th...
03 Jun, 2017, 11.11 AM IST
Layoffs scare is real, not exaggerated, finds ET's Jobs Disruption surveyThe stark takeaway from ET's Jobs Disruption survey of nearly 11,000 employees is that the fear of job losses is not overblown but a near-t...
01 Jun, 2017, 09.15 AM IST
Thousands of Japanese workers are 'Evaporating'. Read whyTormented by the shame of a lost job, failed marriage, or mounting debt, thousands of Japaneses have reportedly started leaving behind thei...
02 May, 2017, 10.16 AM IST
Study reveals decreasing trend in emigration from KeralaEmigration from the state was dominated by Muslims whose share of the emigrants continued to remain very much higher than their share in th...
31 Mar, 2013, 03.14 PM IST
- US private cos cut 84,000 jobs in December: Report
In signs of improving labour market situation, US employers slashed as many as 84,000 private sector jobs in December 09, the lowest employ...
06 Jan, 2010, 08.45 PM IST
- 2009: Jobs go from killing fields to hiring valley
There could have been no worse start to a year than 2009 for the job market, but as the days passed by hope sprouted from the ashes of mill...
14 Dec, 2009, 12.56 PM IST
- Next 3 to 6 months could be tough for pvt sector companies
With companies adopting cost cutting measures in wake of economic downturn, next three to six months are expected to be a tough period for ...
18 Mar, 2009, 01.03 PM IST