The dashboard carries 65 stories this week, 28 about India and 37 global: 30 on layoffs and closures, 18 on unemployment and labour data, nine on hiring and expansion and eight on pay and workplace. The portal lists 2,267,317 open positions read from the careers pages of 27,314 employers, 188,514 of them in India. The United States accounts for 1,048,368 listings, followed by India, Germany with 83,083, the United Kingdom with 75,562 and Canada with 66,423. Week-on-week portal history is not yet available.
Job cuts dominate, much of the reporting tying them to artificial intelligence. AOL puts the technology sector's layoff rate at a 20-year high, naming Oracle and Microsoft; HRKatha reports employee estimates of 2,000 to 2,500 Oracle roles cut in India. Livemint reports that 45 to 50 per cent of the roughly 700 staff at Adidas's Gurgaon technology hub were let go, a share Business Today says the company puts at under 20 per cent. Goldman Sachs, via NDTV Profit, estimates AI adoption at 15 to 20 per cent in major developed economies, with US call-centre jobs 39 per cent below trend. On the portal today Oracle has 2,231 open listings, Adidas 1,231 and Goldman Sachs 1,243.
Policy and Indian hiring account for much of the rest. Business Today reports that the $100,000 H-1B employer fee has been extended to September 2027, with the administration saying the earlier order cut registrations from large IT outsourcing firms by 92 per cent; the Economic Times reports that employers' past and planned layoffs of US workers will now be weighed when H-1B petitions are reviewed. Livemint reports Starbucks setting up a Chennai GCC with 800 technology roles, Business Today a ₹1 lakh crore semiconductor investment expected to generate one lakh jobs, and NDTV Profit an estimated 2 to 2.5 lakh festive-season jobs between July and December.
This week in jobs · written 22 Sep 2026 from the stories below and our portal data
Updated every 3 hours · last updated 22 Sep 2026, 10:21 IST · stories carried for 7 days
85 stories from the last 7 days · 32 about India · 14 name an employer on our portal
Employment trends show growing pressure in industries where automation tools are already available, particularly across major developed economies
Opponents say Paramount's multi-billion-dollar merger with Warner Bros will slash Hollywood jobs, reduce the number of films produced, and threaten CNN's independence.
Changing technology and artificial intelligence contributed to county information technology department restructuring.
Layoffs announced over the summer were up by nearly 50% year on year and hundreds of job losses took effect.
Popverse staff have been laid off as ReedPop is to close the site even sooner than we thought
Massachusetts’ unemployment system still misses federal standards, with audits citing long waits, poor communication and delayed benefits.
Applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell to 196,000 last week, marking the lowest level since mid-July and coming in far below expert expectations.
1 in 4 callers had to wait an hour or more for a call center agent or automated voice prompt to respond.
Apple has carried out another round of job cuts, its second in less than two months, as part of ongoing restructuring. The latest layoffs affected a small group of employees in the Fitness+ division, particularly those working on audio features such as Time to Walk and Time to Run. These services…
Apple has reportedly carried out another round of layoffs, marking the company’s second reported job-cut exercise in less than two months.
Oracle is offering severance packages to employees affected by its latest round of layoffs, but the payout will be capped at six months of base salary regardless of how long an employee has worked at the company.
Oracle has capped severance for employees affected by its latest layoffs at 26 weeks of base salary. The cuts have impacted workers globally, including India where around 3,000 roles are reportedly affected. The company’s severance plan includes tenure-based payouts, while unvested stock awards and…
Chennai accounts for roughly a tenth of the GCC base in India, according to the state government.
Vedanta Power has onboarded 54 campus hires, with women accounting for 57 per cent of the new recruits, as the company expands its focus on building a young talent pipeline for the power sector. The company said 56 per cent of its workforce is below the age of 35, with campus hiring forming a key…
Women now account for more than half of the workforce in four industries in India, but their representation continues to remain lower in C-suite and senior leadership positions, according to a report cited by The Economic Times. The findings point to a gap between women’s participation across the…
AI, automation and cost pressures are reshaping jobs in India, even as hiring expands in semiconductors, GCCs, manufacturing and specialized technology roles.
The share of temporary workers has risen sharply over the past four fiscal years, as companies expanded production, added shifts and increased factory capacity to capitalise on growth in the Indian market.
Despite the overall decline, there are still more job vacancies than unemployed people.
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BERLIN - Volkswagen's sweeping turnaround plan foresees more than 4,000 further job cuts at Porsche, German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Saturday, following a profit warning linked to problems at the sports car subsidiary.
Retrenchments stand at 4,620 for the three months, higher than earlier estimates Read more at The Business Times.
Our editorial board is getting deja vu. Eleven months later, officials have not changed their ways and instead there is less transparency and ownership of their decisions than there was last school year. In the last few months, GW has laid off members from The Milken Institute School of Public…
Washington DC , September 19, 2026: The Trump administration has moved to tighten oversight of the H-1B visa program, directing the US Departments of State,
You've probably never heard of the feature affected by these job cuts.
The jobs market is showing signs of improvement despite a slight fall in new job postings, according to the REC.
Applicants are sending resumes into a black hole as hiring managers sift through AI-generated and fake applications. Indeed’s CEO says it's a perfect storm
The Wall Street Journal recently published a picture from a Dallas job fair. It depicts individuals holding folders and resumes while standing in line while wearing business casual. Most of them most likely attended college. It’s likely that many of them owe money for it. According to a recent…
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US President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to consider employers' past and planned layoffs when reviewing H-1B visa petitions and related applications. The order also calls for the use of federal economic data and a review of previously submitted labour condition applications…
Goldman Sachs says AI adoption has reached 15–20% in major developed economies, slowing hiring in technology, call centres, software and advertising. US call-centre jobs are 39% below trend, with junior workers particularly exposed.
At best, older, laid-off workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
Tech giants are pouring hundreds of billions into AI while gutting the workforces that built them. The labor data reveals a layoff rate that dwarfs anything seen during the 2008 financial crisis or the dot-com bust, and fresh figures show Oracle has begun a second round of cuts even as AI…
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits dropped sharply last week, another sign that layoffs remain rare and most Americans enjoy job security
We could see more layoffs at Disney very soon.
Big Tech workers say stock compensation can make leaving difficult, but layoffs, AI startups, and years of stock gains are changing the calculus.
Roger Garbow drove his Hyundai Ioniq 5 more than 600 miles around New York's Finger Lakes, leaning on Tesla's Supercharger network the entire way. A year earlier, Elon Musk laid off nearly all 500 people who built that network.
If you’re a nurse, retail worker or health care manager, Napa County has lots of job openings right now. Unemployment is 4.3%, lower than the state average but slightly up from last month.
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The region’s 9.99 million jobs comes after adding 47,000 more workers over 12 months.
Volkswagen's restructuring could lead to job cuts at Porsche, with over 4,000 positions at risk. This follows a prior announcement of 5,000 layoffs.
Trump extends H-1B entry restriction while ordering closer scrutiny of employers that have laid off US workers.
As the country enters the festive season, businesses across e-commerce, quick commerce, retail, logistics, hospitality, travel and consumer services are preparing for one of the year's most concentrated periods of demand.
अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप ने H-1B वीजा पर विदेशी कर्मचारियों की भर्ती के लिए लगने वाली 1 लाख डॉलर की फीस एक साल और बढ़ा दी है। भारतीय आईटी प्रोफेशनल्स के लिए अहम इस फैसले के साथ वीजा आवेदनों की जांच भी सख्त होगी। जानिए किस पर लागू होगी यह फीस।
The administration claimed the initial 2025 fee order successfully reduced H-1B registrations from major IT outsourcing firms by 92% and cut consular processing requests by nearly 97%.
The order sets a 30-day deadline for the Secretary of Labour, acting through the Wage and Hour Division, to begin reviewing data from previously submitted labour condition applications
US President Donald Trump has extended restrictions on the H-1B nonimmigrant visa programme for another 12 months, keeping in place a $100,000 payment requirement for certain H-1B workers seeking to enter the US.
Jobs and programme budgets in firing line at BBC, Channel 4 and ITV as they are outgunned by YouTube and Netflix “I wouldn’t be surprised if the BBC or Channel 4 disappeared,” says one of the thousands of TV staff at risk of redundancy, as British broadcasters face what has rapidly become a fight…
To say the very least, you’re going to need to cut costs.
We work in AI and we’ve seen it eliminate jobs. We’ve also seen it create more jobs, too.
New data from the Burning Glass Institute shows that college graduates are having more trouble finding a job than those without a degree. Is this a hint of what
Wall Street will get a key update this week on the U.S. housing market, along with an unemployment update
FIIDS, an advocacy group, issued a statement shortly after President Trump tightened oversight of the H-1B visa program, citing misuse by some employers, including IT outsourcing firms
A US-based financial-technology firm, Bluevine, has abruptly terminated its entire Indian customer support team in a five-minute Google Meet call, leaving around 80 employees jobless. As per media reports, the layoffs were communicated late into their evening shift after staff had been asked to…
Semicon 2.0: ₹1 Lakh Crore Investment, 1 Lakh Jobs Expected, Says Ashwini Vaishnaw
Global semiconductor giants step up facilities to train India’s talent pipeline for factory floor.
More than half of districts - 52.7 per cent - recorded LFPR between 60 per cent and 80 per cent, while 54.3 per cent had WPR between 40 per cent and 60 per cent.
A union says 137 workers at the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank are slated for redundancy as part of an ongoing restructure, but the company says its plans are "yet to be finalised".
An Oracle document reveals what happens to the employees laid off in the company's most recent round of job cuts.
Amid Uber layoffs, employees link job cuts to AI's growing influence, highlighting tools like ChatGPT and productivity dynamics in the tech industry.
The state government said the UK outreach is part of its broader plan to attract global investment and support its target of becoming a $1.5-trillion (approximately ₹14,389,331 crores) economy by 2036.
The aim is to offer an early learning environment rooted in Arabic language, Emirati culture, values and national identity
Young people in Britain’s poorer towns have far fewer opportunities. Changing this will require targeted support – and industrial strategy The ideas that Neets (young people not in education, employment or training) simply aren’t trying hard enough to find a job, or don’t want one, are “myths,”…
It further said that it has several open roles across the organisation, adding that affected employees can explore those opportunities.
More than 85,000 semiconductor skill sets generated in India, says Intel senior executive
The exact impact will vary depending on factors such as PF wages, previous PF and pension membership, and whether the employer currently contributes only up to the statutory ceiling or on actual wages.
Low staff attrition and reduced demand from clients are thought to be the reasons for the cuts.
Farming and tourism industry leaders say cuts to backpacker numbers will slash the available workforce across regional Australia.
An Andela analysis of almost 50,000 postings for engineering roles found mismatched skills and a proliferation of titles.
Lower wage growth and slower hiring in some sectors may be the result of artificial intelligence, especially for younger workers.
The reported job cuts could affect roughly 45% to 50% of the hub’s workforce of around 700 employees and include software engineers, data scientists and data engineers, Wocult reported citing people familiar with the matter.
Oracle is cutting jobs even as it plans to spend up to $95 billion on capital expenditure in fiscal 2027, largely as it expands its AI and data-centre infrastructure. CFO Hilary Maxson told employees the focus should be on eliminating low-impact work.
Oracle’s India operations have reportedly seen significant job cuts in the latest round of layoffs. Current and former employees estimate that between 2,000 and 2,500 staff may have been let go, though some suggest the number could be as high as 3,000 to 4,000. The company has not officially…
SBI is hiring for senior roles, including a Group Chief Information Security Officer, with IT qualifications. Marketing Executive and Dean positions are also available.
Engineers account for 42 per cent of Vedanta Group’s workforce, with the conglomerate employing technical talent across traditional engineering disciplines as well as emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, data science, renewable energy and robotics. The group highlighted its engineering…
Entain, which also owns Coral and BetMGM, starts consultation process over customer care roles Business live – latest updates The Ladbrokes owner, Entain, has said it is preparing to cut 400 jobs, only weeks after the FTSE 100 business reported better than expected profit in its first half of the…
Rotherham has 46 online vacancies for every 1,000 young people but there are 288 in Cotswold district council area Young people in Rotherham face a local jobs market with the fewest suitable opportunities in Britain, according to a report that warns stark regional divisions are fuelling a crisis in…
Wage increase brings Amazon’s US minimum pay in line with Costco and includes new grocery discount benefit Amazon has raised its minimum wage in the US to $20 an hour, with average pay at the company reaching $24 an hour, according to the company. The pay increase represents a $1 increase from its…
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