{"id":961357,"date":"2025-09-13T08:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961357"},"modified":"2025-09-13T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:43:00","slug":"adecco-sees-it-hiring-down-10-15-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/13\/adecco-sees-it-hiring-down-10-15-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"Adecco sees IT hiring down 10-15% in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) sector is facing a sharp slowdown in hiring, with placements down 10-15% in the first half of the current calendar year, Sunil Chemmankotil, country manager of staffing major Adecco, told Fe. The pressure is expected to continue into the second half as tariffs, global macroeconomic headwinds, tighter client spends, and the growing impact of artificial intelligence weigh on the industry. <\/p>\n<p>The contraction comes despite the broader job market remaining resilient, with gains in e-commerce, logistics, and manufacturing helping offset weakness in IT, Chemmankotil said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) sector is facing a sharp slowdown in hiring, with placements down 10-15% in the first half of the current calendar year, Sunil Chemmankotil, country manager of staffing major Adecco, told Fe. The pressure is expected to continue into the second half as tariffs, global macroeconomic headwinds, tighter client spends, and the growing impact of artificial intelligence weigh on the industry. The contraction comes despite the broader job market remaining resilient, with gains in e-commerce, logistics, and manufacturing helping offset weakness in IT, Chemmankotil said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961357","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}