{"id":28443,"date":"2025-02-11T11:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=28443"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:29:05","slug":"%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd%e7%a7%91%e6%8a%80%e8%a1%8c%e4%b8%9a-1-%e6%9c%88%e5%a4%b1%e4%b8%9a%e4%ba%ba%e6%95%b0%e8%b6%85-15-%e4%b8%87%e4%ba%ba%ef%bc%8c%e7%94%9f%e6%88%90%e5%bc%8fai-%e5%bd%b1%e5%93%8d%e6%8b%9b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/28443.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. tech sector loses over 150,000 jobs in January as generative AI impacts hiring trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 11 - The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 7 that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >USA<\/a>Technology Industry<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%a4%b1%e4%b8%9a\" title=\"[Sees articles with [unemployment] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >lose one's job<\/a>The rate climbed from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January, considerably higher than the 4% unemployment rate for the month as a whole, showing that the spread of automation and AI is taking a toll on the tech industry's labor market.<strong>Growing negative impacts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28444\" title=\"6b9d9b4ej00sri1nj002yd000sg00lcp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/6b9d9b4ej00sri1nj002yd000sg00lcp.jpg\" alt=\"6b9d9b4ej00sri1nj002yd000sg00lcp\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a report released by consulting firm Janco Associates, based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of unemployed people in the tech sector in January was up from 98,000 in December of last year.<strong>Increase to 152,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, said that unemployment in the tech sector<strong>Partly due to the impact of AI<\/strong>.. With the rise of generative AI, tech giants are investing a lot of money in AI infrastructure, but these funds<strong>No new IT jobs were created<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Janulaitis explains, \"Routine and menial tasks in the IT department such as<strong>Reports and administrative instruments<\/strong>are being eliminated. As companies begin to focus on AI, they are also thinking about<strong>Reduction in the number of programmers and system designers<\/strong>, hopefully AI will provide enough value to deliver a good return.\"<\/p>\n<p>Increased corporate investment in AI is primed to lead to reduced hiring in the future, which some tech leaders have begun to call \"cost avoidance\". Some companies would rather<strong>Taking on tasks that can be automated through AI<\/strong>, rather than hiring new employees and saving money from it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cory Stahle, an economist at job site Indeed, the latest tech sector employment data suggests that the unemployment rate for white-collar workers is still in the<strong>Highest level since 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We've seen, particularly over the past year, a polarization of opportunities,\" he said.<strong>White-collar knowledge-based jobs<\/strong>employer demand is much lower than those that require face-to-face<strong>skilled labor<\/strong>Post.\"<\/p>\n<p>Another reason for January's tech industry job losses is that companies are beginning to implement spending cuts for the year, Janulaitis said, adding that many companies made significant budget cuts based on the prevailing economic conditions when they were making their financial plans last year, 1AI understands.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to news from February 11, the Wall Street Journal reported on February 7 that the unemployment rate in the US science and technology sector had risen from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January, significantly higher than the overall 4% unemployment rate last month, indicating that automation and the spread of AI were having a growing negative impact on the labour market in the science and technology sector. According to a report published by the consulting firm Janco Associates, the number of unemployed in the science and technology sector increased from 98,000 last December to 152,000 in January, based on data from the United States Department of Labor. According to Victor Janulaitis, Chief Executive Officer of Janco Associates, unemployment in science and technology<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[746,383,236],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-28443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-746","tag-ai","tag-236"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28443"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=28443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}