Cognizant Invests in America's AI-Era Workforce
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Cognizant expands its commitment to America's workforce by hiring U.S. college graduates, scaling new AI-era job categories, leading a national worker-transition coalition and doubling a global AI skilling commitment to two million people TEANECK, N.J., Sept. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH ), a leading AI Builder and technology services provider, today detailed how it is building and preparing the American workforce for the AI era. The Company's research finds that AI could unlock $4.5 trillion in U.S. labor productivity and $1 trillion in additional U.S. economic value over the next decade, and Cognizant is committed to helping American workers capture that opportunity first. Cognizant plans to hire 1,500 U.S. college graduates and scale a new Frontier Certified Engineer and Frontier Business Operator workforce to 15,000 people, backed by annual direct hiring from universities. The company's position is that AI should expand opportunity for American workers, not shrink it. That commitment extends beyond Cognizant's own hiring. The company has also joined RAISE US, a new bipartisan national coalition, with Ravi Kumar S serving on its Advisory Board, and signed the White House's Pledge to America's Youth: Investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education. Furthering that commitment, Cognizant's global Synapse skilling initiative has already surpassed its...
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