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 […]
Shopify To Lay Off 1,000 Employees Today
Early last year Shopify announced plans to double the size of its engineering team in 2021 by hiring 2,021 new technical staff. Today Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke announced that Shopify would be reducing their workforce by 10%, approximately 1,000 employees, by the end of the day. According to Lütke, the layoffs are necessary as the e-commerce boom that fuelled […]
Shopify Challenger Shoplazza Chooses Toronto As Its North America Base
Global e-commerce Software as a Service (SaaS) platform Shoplazza has closed a USD $150 million Series C1 financing round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2. Headquartered in China, Shoplazza has a corporate office in Markham where is employs 20 and has plans for grow headcount to 50 by the end of 2022. The funds raised […]
Eleven Tech Companies Looking For Canadian Talent In 2022
If someone asked you to guess which city in North America has the fastest growing technology market, you might guess San Francisco or Austin. But you’d be looking too far south. According to a recent Tech Talent Report, Toronto is actually North America’s fastest-growing technology market, and Vancouver isn’t far behind. High-growth companies across Canada have […]
Women from BWOSS, Shopify and Google Explore the Colourful Side of Tech Sales
It’s a common understanding that women are disproportionately represented in tech. The Covid-19 pandemic has only further underscored the barriers and issues of inequality women and women of colour face as they build their careers in the technology industry. Regardless of educational background or training, women accounted for 63% of the 1 million jobs lost […]
Shopify To Double Engineering Team With 2,021 New Hires In 2021
Shopify has tapped industry veteran Cathy Polinsky as the company’s new vice president of engineering as it plans to double the size of its engineering team this year. As the newest senior leader on Shopify’s engineering team, Polinsky will lead Shopify’s efforts to build its e-commerce infrastructure and will lead the company’s efforts to double […]
Amazon Doubles Down On Toronto
Amazon has signed new leases in downtown Toronto. According to The Globe and Mail, the Seattle-based tech giant has taken an additional 100,000 square feet in two buildings in the south part of Toronto’s financial district. Amazon confirmed today with Tech Talent Canada that it is taking new space in office buildings in which it […]
10 Companies In Toronto That Tech Talent Want To Work For
What motivates candidates to take that recruiter call and leave their current role? Today’s most successful companies are the ones that realize their people are their most important asset, and that attracting great talent requires a strong employer brand. A company with a poor reputation could be building the most innovative product, exceed their earnings […]
Fast Company Names Four Canadian Workplaces Among Best for Innovators
Fast Company has published their second annual list of the Best Workplaces for Innovators. The list identifies companies that encourage bold experimentation, not just from the C-suite or engineering groups but from every level of the organization. And now more than ever, businesses of every kind, from every industry, must innovate to survive and thrive. […]