It isn’t “so many tech companies” as much as it is the big ones.
The big companies like Meta and Alphabet (parents of Facebook and Google) are reliant on revenue from advertising. When ad revenue dries up, so do the big companies. But there are plenty of tech jobs out there, from web developers to database administrators and programmers.
There was a report this morning in a finance news letter about how investment banks kept hiring all last year. From Bloomberg News:
“The biggest US banks boosted their headcounts last year, even as some Wall Street firms cut positions to rein in expenses and rework their operations. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman and Morgan Stanley all bumped up staffing levels between the fourth quarter of 2021 and the end of last year. Citigroup’s increase was the biggest, with 17,000 employees added last year.”
We are in the midst of certain economic disruptions, most resulting from Putin’s war against Ukraine. It is why energy prices whipsawed, why supply chain disruptions have continued,, why there are food emergencies in parts of the world.
But we are not in a recession. You don’t have recession with unemployment running 3.5%.