March 2, 2023

Upwork Inc. (NASDAQ:UPWK), the largest global talent platform, said it is making full-time hiring available to all customers through a new product that enables businesses to find, vet, hire, onboard and pay workers for full-time work arrangements.Upwork said its research found that 93% of hiring managers often or occasionally convert freelancers into full-time employees.

The US Department of Justice announced a settlement with New York-based IT staffing firm Amiga Informatics over immigration-related discrimination claims.

Drishticon Inc., a Fremont, California-based IT services and business solutions provider with offices in Mumbai, India, acquired Commercial Programming Systems Inc., an IT staffing provider based in Los Angeles."Our acquisition of Commercial Programming Systems will strengthen Drishticon's position as a premier IT services and consulting company and will expand our geographic footprint to Southern California," said Drishticon President Manoj Vidyarthi.

CDW Corp., a multi-brand technology solutions provider headquartered in Illinois, acquired Locus Recruiting, a Denver-based consulting firm specializing in information security, cloud computing, networking and infrastructure."Acquiring Locus and its expertise accelerates our capability to meet customers' increasingly interconnected and complex technology challenges," said Chris Corley, chief commercial and operating officer at CDW.

The number of IT jobs in the US declined in January, though the unemployment rate remained low, according to an analysis by the TechServe Alliance, a trade association representing the IT and engineering staffing and solutions industry.IT employment fell 0.22% month over month in January despite an unemployment rate in IT of only 2.1% in the fourth quarter of 2022.