Because the potential for a recession and a decline in shopper spending grows, corporations throughout sectors are signaling that they’re slicing prices and both slowing hiring or shedding employees heading into 2023.

However expertise executives say they’re anticipating to spend extra on key initiatives like cybersecurity and new expertise within the new yr in addition to develop or preserve their workforces at the same time as a overwhelming majority count on to see a recession quickly if one isn’t already right here, in response to the newest CNBC Know-how Government Council survey.

Almost three-quarters (74%) of respondents mentioned they count on their corporations to spend extra on new expertise within the subsequent 12 months, whereas 22% mentioned they count on spending to be about the identical, in response to the survey.

Whereas each figures are barely down because the final TEC survey in June once they have been 75% and 25%, respectively, it additionally comes after the downturn in each inventory worth and enterprise throughout the tech sector may counsel there could be a much more adverse outlook. Roughly 4% of respondents mentioned they might be spending much less, in comparison with none within the earlier survey.

Tech spending total is forecast to rise about 5.1% subsequent yr after a acquire of lower than 1% this yr, in response to a current survey by Gartner, successfully unchanged from the agency’s surveys earlier this yr. A few of that will replicate a sense that corporations that reduce on funding throughout earlier downturns just like the 2008 monetary disaster badly lagged rivals within the years that adopted.

Cloud computing, which obtained practically unanimous assist as “critically vital” from TEC survey respondents, will doubtless be the recipient of that sustained spending. Gartner expects cloud computing revenues to rise to $101 billion subsequent yr, up from $90 billion in 2021. Cloud computing is predicted to rise by 20% for the following two to a few years, in response to Gartner’s forecast.

The CNBC Know-how Government Council second half survey was carried out from November 18 to December 9, with responses from 23 members of the Council, which incorporates executives in roles like chief expertise officer and chief data officer throughout quite a lot of private and non-private organizations.

Regardless of the broader contractions and layoffs throughout the tech business from corporations together with Meta and Twitter, a majority of the survey respondents (52%) mentioned their corporations could be holding their tech headcount on the similar degree over the following 12 months. Actually, 39% mentioned they anticipated their firm’s tech workforce to extend.

That can doubtless come by hiring a few of these employees who have been laid off at different tech corporations. Fifty-six % of respondents mentioned that there’s a possibility to reap the benefits of different corporations’ hiring freezes and layoffs, whereas 35% mentioned their firm is dealing with related talent-related headwinds.

Economists and different observers have indicated they don’t seem to be afraid of a bigger layoff contagion emanating from the current cuts throughout tech. At CNBC’s CFO Council Summit earlier this month in Washington, D.C., KPMG chief economist Diane Swonk waved off issues concerning the current layoffs when she mentioned, “I am not nervous about these [tech] employees not getting jobs fairly shortly.”

In November, the expertise sector introduced 52,711 job cuts, reaching a complete of 80,978 this yr, in response to information from govt outplacement agency Challenger, Grey & Christmas.

Whereas that’s the most cuts throughout tech year-to-date since 2002 and 535% larger than the identical interval final yr, it’s not indicative of the broader job market. To date this yr employers introduced plans to chop 320,173 jobs, which whereas up 6% from 2021, represents the second lowest quantity on report since Challenger, Grey & Christmas began monitoring job cuts in 1993. The earlier low was in 2021.

It stays to be seen how a slowing financial system might alter this development.

Thirty-nine % of respondents mentioned the U.S. financial system is already in a recession, whereas one other 35% mentioned a recession will come within the first half of 2023.