High-tech Job Market Has Lost 400,000 Jobs
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Half of the technology job losses since 2001 have come since the recession officially ended.
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The number of people out of work is on the rise, but a record number of people now have jobs.
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he Labor Department reported last week that 144,000 payroll jobs were created in August. Let&#39;s put that in perspective. The number was below market forecasts.
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Hereâs a paradox for you: The latest government stats indicate that the IT job market is positively sizzling right now. Unemployment hovers at a nearly imperceptible 3 percent, and employers everywhere report difficulties finding qualified workers to fill open spots. Yet every week I receive e-mails from frustrated, even angry, IT folks whose jobs were either eliminated or shipped overseas. Although they keep plugging away, they simply cannot find work. And these folks are not just a bunch of cranks; theyâre IT pros with real skills and experience to match.
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Job trimming at technology companies took off during the past three months, according to a new report. Announced job cuts in the technology sector hit 54,701 in the third quarter, up 60 percent from the second
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Once thriving, call centers now are shrinking, a trend that could threaten thousands of jobs. Because of lower wages overseas, technological advances and new do-not-call regulations, call
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By Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Dec. 14--The number of technology companies launched or lured to the  Pittsburgh region with the help of the Technology Collaborative doubled in the  fiscal year that ended in June, but the net job gains dipped.
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Colgate-Palmolive said today that it would close about a third of its 81 factories and cut more than 4,400 jobs over the next four years in a major effort to increase profit margins pressured by global competition.
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Colgate-Palmolive said that it would close about a third of its factories and cut more than 4,400 jobs over the next four years.
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Colgate-Palmolive Co., the consumer products giant, will close a third of its factories and cut 4,400 jobs, or roughly 12 percent of its worldwide workforce, as part of a
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The number of Americans filing  initial claims for jobless pay fell by much more than expected  last week to 317,000 in the steepest decline in three years,  Labor Department data showed on Thursday.
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The U.S. 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.
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A rash of job cuts - more than 10,000 layoffs this week from a handful of companies â-as created some gloom on the job front. But today&#39;s release of jobs data for September was
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US firmss have cut back on the total number of staff employed for the first time in four years, official data shows.
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The US created 96,000 jobs in September, a slowdown from the previous month, in the last major figures before November's election.
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The number of people out of work in the UK fell by 29,000 between August and October to 1.39 million, the latest official figures have shown.
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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.