The recent labor market data released by the Ministry of Manpower shows a warning: data for the fourth quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026 show that although the layoff rate of professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMET) is at a controllable level, the proportion of overall layoffs has increased for several consecutive quarters, especially in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. A software tester friend who was going through the pain of changing jobs told me that he spent almost all his spare time taking classes and building skills, but he… Read the full story