A Career in IT? Think for a Moment
In the full 12 months of 2022, a great year overall for the job market, 1,054 companies in the tech sector registered 164,411 layoffs (Source: layoffs.com, which monitors tech companies). By mid-April of this year, that number already was blown out of the water, with 586 tech companies reporting 170,549 layoffs (as of April 15). So not only have we seen an explosion in tech sector layoffs, the average number of layoffs per company went from 156 to 2,951—and that’s not yet including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of two upcoming rounds of layoffs to the tune of 21,000 workers—p...