Boston-area tech jobs decline
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Greater Boston ranks third among top information technology labor markets that have lost a significant number of tech jobs, according to a study released yesterday.
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The U.S. information tech sector lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001 and April 2004, and the market for tech workers remains bleak, according to a new report.
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SEATTLE -- The job market has been depressed in recent years, but tech workers might find it downright depressing. Researchers from the University of Illinois-Chicago have found that the US information tech
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Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas reports that the US information technology industry lost 54,701 jobs in the July through September quarter, which is an increase of 14 percent from the same quarter last year.
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The growing services industry is hiring, but tech workers looking for a job may need to do more than brush up on their coding.
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IT departments face a crunch, between impending retirements and a smaller pool of grads.
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The number of Americans with jobs fell for the first time in four years in August, as Friday's closely watched government jobs report came in much weaker than Wall Street forecasts.
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The U.S. economy shed 4,000 jobs in August, as layoffs in the mortgage and construction industries combined with the ongoing slide in manufacturing employment to produce the first such monthly decline in four years.
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The Massachusetts jobless rate last month plunged to its lowest level in more than two years, the sharpest monthly drop since 1981, the state reported yesterday.
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Intel fired a warning flare Thursday that the recovery of the high-tech economy might be fading. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant, which has its largest base of operations in Hillsboro, lowered its
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A slowing economy weighs on the employment software company.
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Tech workers are holding on to their jobs tighter than they have in more than 20 years.
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By Robert Gavin, The Boston Globe  Sep. 17--ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. -- After the collapse of Digital Equipment  Corp. cost him a 16-year career, Larry Millette started over, taking an  entry-level factory job at the IBM plant in this Vermont village.   The pay wasn't great.
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Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America.
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U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, led lower by technology shares, as investors turned skittish about Friday's jobs report and the economy's prospects.
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The continued dominance of Boston's healthcare industry, the region's largest employer, could be undermined by stagnant federal funding for biomedical research, combined with the city's chronically high cost of living and competition from other cities, according to a report by an industry group.
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The US high-tech work force grew by 2 percent last year but demand for computer programmers, tech-support specialists and other high-tech workers continues to erode, according to a survey released on Wednesday.