India stares at high youth unemployment as hiring in its behemoth IT sector slows

India stares at high youth unemployment as hiring in its behemoth IT sector slows

Employees work at the headquarters of security system developer Staqu Technologies in Gurugram, India. India is struggling to bring down youth unemployment as a fall in white-collar jobs in the IT sector has left many fresh graduates and young people unemployed.

As automation and artificial intelligence adoption picks up pace, many roles in IT are becoming redundant — a phenomenon that’s not restricted to India.

Data from recruitment firm Foundit showed that online hiring activity for both hardware and software IT plummeted by 18% last year from 2022. India is facing a youth unemployment problem as a decline […]

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