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n 2025, IT hiring will—finally—begin to increase after the pandemic boom and subsequent layoff bust that has lasted longer than most antic
ted. At the height of the pandemic, organizations hired as much IT talent as they could to meet the astronomical jump in customers’ online activity. In their hiring frenzy, though, many leaders didn’t have a plan for what that talent would do once they got through the initial bottleneck. They hoarded employees and spent untold amounts of money for people to essentially do nothing. To reset, leaders implemented mass layoffs and reversed a decade-long trend of growing IT employmen
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