Emerging technology trends shaping the IT job market — from AI and cloud computing to edge computing, quantum readiness, and the evolving skills employers need to stay competitive in a rapidly changing tech landscape.
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 EA is closing BioWare and cutting about 400 jobs, roughly 3 percent of the company, according to Bloomberg, with around 50 of those roles at BioWare itself. The next Mass Effect, still in early development, goes with it. For a hiring manager the number that matters is … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Microsoft Maia 300 is Microsoft’s third in-house AI inference chip, due in production in 2027, and it pits Microsoft against Google, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI for the same small pool of custom-silicon engineers. Microsoft unveiled it on October 12, 2026. The design is done. The fight for the people … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Netflix has not confirmed any layoffs, but Puck reported on October 9, 2026, that the company plans to cut about 5 percent of staff, roughly 800 of its 16,000 full-time employees, possibly before October 20 earnings. Netflix declined to comment. Nobody has said which teams. For a hiring … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 The IMF estimates AI will touch about 40% of jobs worldwide and 60% in advanced economies, but roughly half of those exposed jobs gain from it, so your real decision is which roles get augmented, downgraded, or cut. Kristalina Georgieva said it out loud on Monday in Bangkok, … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia A HubSpot NetSuite integration works when HubSpot owns contacts, companies, and deals, NetSuite owns sales orders, invoices, and payments, and every synced field moves in one direction. HubSpot’s own connector handles that split well for one subsidiary at modest volume. It runs out when subsidiaries, custom order fields, or … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The Labor Department suspended Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini from PERM on October 8, 2026. H-1B status was not touched. Only the green card step stopped, and only at those eight employers. Everyone else files normally. A green card freeze at … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Decommissioning legacy systems means fully retiring an old platform after a migration, archiving its data under the retention rules that apply to it, cutting off every downstream consumer, and reclaiming the licenses, hardware, and access it still holds. Most migrations never finish that part. The new system goes live, … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Application rationalization is the exercise of listing every application you pay for, measuring who actually opens it, naming an owner, and putting a renewal date beside it, then deciding what to keep. Four columns. Not a maturity model, not a framework, and not something you need a consulting deck … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 The Broadcom Anthropic deal puts $60 billion of bank debt behind a $125.2 billion TPU lease whose payments start only when hardware goes live in 2027, so hiring pressure hits electricians, commissioning crews, and TPU engineers first. Money got raised in October. The people it pays for have … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The Senate permitting deal, introduced September 30, 2026, would put most of its new grid work on transmission planners, interconnection engineers, and line designers, but almost none of that work lands before 2027, even if the bill passes in November. For permitting reform, the engineering jobs question … Read more
