The number of unemployed IT technologies increased from 98,000 in December 2024 to 152,000 in January 2025, displays the last data from the US Department of Labor. Some see artificial intelligence that already affects the IT labor market.
Why does it matter
While the Work Department announced on Friday that the United States added a total net number of 143,000 jobs throughout the country to start the Up-to-date Year, also discovered that “routine and mundane” work in The technology sector saw AI replacing more peopleVictor Janulaitis, general director of Janco Associates, he said.
The enhance in expenditure by leading technology companies in order to develop generative artificial intelligence in order to replace office and administrative tasks enables clients to reduce labor costs in these areas.
The latest data forecast was considering openly compared to completed work for IT specialists and is valid until February 2025. Website of employment data report According to briefing, noting that the IT labor market has shrunk for the second year in a row.
There are about 152,000 unemployed IT specialists, and the IT labor market has shrunk by over 171,000 jobs in the last 24 months, which is flattened growth, the company said.
Based on data and models, the forecast does not provide for growth in the IT labor market in 2025.
Greater trend
The health sector recorded its participation in corporate layoffs based on technology. In May last year, Highmark will allow 98 people to Engen, a company depending on IT technologies ensuring the management of back-office claims and other administrative functions, citing better operational performance.
“We focus on building the labor force of the future, which requires identification of talent gaps, investing in roles on demand, such as nursing and adapting technology, such as AI, to better predict the demand and consumer drive,” said Highmark in a statement at that time. “We are also looking for the possibility of passing/centralization/change of work, which allows our employees to use their skills and work at the top of their license.”
But in other healthcare areas, the opposite problem – deficiencies of technology workers – is challenges. Software and programmers, data analysts and scientists as well as the roles of security specialists are very sought after.
At the end of 2020, the management of the leading IT Health suppliers cited several smoking challenges and possibilities requiring technical resources to support care and activity.
There is also a lack of talent of cybersecurity, which has only become a bigger problem with each year.
Recognizing the lack of talent of cyber security in the US, the Defense Department published a plan to implement a federal cyberspace strategy with a five -year horizon in 2023. Employment and trading to assess the critical candidates that can be used.
Because health care organizations pay millions for recovery from ransomware and other cyber attacks, they actively look for “asses in seats” – and they are to employ AI safety tools – to enhance cybernetic defense.
On the plate
“When they start looking at artificial intelligence, they also look at a reduction in the number of programmers, system designers, hoping that AI will be able to provide them with a certain value and have a good turn,” said Janulaitis, talking about the practice of employing companies in general.