{"id":1157,"date":"2024-02-14T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2024\/02\/14\/tech-spending-shifts-to-meet-ai-demand-forces-a-reshuffling-of-skills-for-workers\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:14:34","slug":"tech-spending-shifts-to-meet-ai-demand-forces-a-reshuffling-of-skills-for-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2024\/02\/14\/tech-spending-shifts-to-meet-ai-demand-forces-a-reshuffling-of-skills-for-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech spending shifts to meet AI demand, forces a &#8216;reshuffling of skills&#8217; for workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech companies such Google,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2022\/11\/14\/amazon-lay-off-10000-employees-report\/10697110002\/\">Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2022\/11\/07\/facebook-meta-layoff-thousands-employees-reports\/8292640001\/\">Meta<\/a> (Facebook)\u00a0and others laid off tens of thousands of workers last year as an adjustment to over-hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>But the firings have not abated in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In January, job cuts leaped 136% over December and hit a 10-month high, according to a new<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/cms\/article\/Challenger,%20Gray%20&amp;%20Christmas%20said%20Thursday,%20as%20more%20than%2082,000%20people,%20largely%20in%20the%20technology%20and%20financial%20services%20sectors,%20were%20let%20go%20from%20their%20jobs.\">\u00a0report\u00a0by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas<\/a>. The surge in firings was led by the tech and financial services sectors. (In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/1306967\/cisco-could-lay-off-thousands-of-employees-as-part-of-restructuring.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cisco may be eyeing significant layoffs<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3712686\/tech-spending-shifts-to-meet-ai-demand-forces-a-reshuffling-of-skills-for-workers.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech companies such Google,\u00a0Amazon,\u00a0Meta (Facebook)\u00a0and others laid off tens of thousands of workers last year as an adjustment to over-hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the firings have not abated in 2024. In January, job cuts leaped 136% over December and hit a 10-month high, according to a new\u00a0report\u00a0by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}