Tech workforce pinched by economy, feeling like 2003
That economic doom-and-gloom has finally hit the tech sector and it looks like job cuts in the electronics, telecom and computer industries could be flirting with numbers they haven't seen in years.According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, a global outplacement firm that tracks daily job cut announcements in those industries, the technology sector is on track to lose 180,000 jobs by the end of the year.