{"id":840331,"date":"2024-08-02T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=840331"},"modified":"2024-08-02T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:04:21","slug":"erd-companies-face-headwinds-in-new-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/02\/erd-companies-face-headwinds-in-new-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"ER&amp;D companies face headwinds in new twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the past 12 quarters, the cumulative headcount at five major pureplay ER&amp;D (engineering, research and development) firms shrank to 77,560 at the end of June, spotlighting the industry&#8217;s cyclicality differential with technology outsourcing that&#8217;s finally beginning to add jobs \u2013 and a dash of much needed colour to pallid placements at engineering schools.<\/p>\n<p>The overall growth of ER&amp;D firms is still higher than IT services companies, but the trajectory of both segments have reversed in the recently concluded quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the past 12 quarters, the cumulative headcount at five major pureplay ER&amp;D (engineering, research and development) firms shrank to 77,560 at the end of June, spotlighting the industry&#8217;s cyclicality differential with technology outsourcing that&#8217;s finally beginning to add jobs \u2013 and a dash of much needed colour to pallid placements at engineering schools. The overall growth of ER&amp;D firms is still higher than IT services companies, but the trajectory of both segments have reversed in the recently concluded quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}