Several tech-driven firms in Canada recently laid off a sizeable percentage of their workforce. These deep staff cuts may have affected many skilled foreign workers, both tech and non-tech, who had their work permit status in Canada tied to their employers. The situation with foreign workers is more peculiar compared to those who are Canadian […]
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Amid Layoffs and Possible Recession, Tech Employees Not in Good Spirits
Several thousand Canadians employed in the technology sector have been laid off this year, as a brief post-Pandemic surge has quickly soured into a global downturn. Layoffs hail from a wide range of companies, including Ottawa’s Shopify, Toronto’s Clearco, and Vancouver’s Article and Unbounce. The freshly rebranded Hootsuite took a particularly large hit, trimming 30% of […]
Expect These 35 Canadian Companies to Continue Hiring—Here’s Why
Communitech this month unveiled the first ever Team True North. The Kitchener-based hub for entrepreneurship created the list to spotlight “the best of Canadian tech”—which by their measure is defined as high-performing tech firms “tracking to $1 billion in annual revenue with growth rates that match the top 1% of companies in the world.” “Why did […]
LinkedIn’s 15 Startups Where Canadians Want To Work
Over the past year and a half, professionals across Canada have been pushed to reevaluate the way they live and work in the wake of the pandemic. With economic recovery starting to happen at different paces across industries, many professionals are looking for something new, asking themselves: “What’s next?” Startups are a natural place to […]