Posted on 01/22/2015 7:08:39 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Corporate restructuring at big tech firms like Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft pushed the number of jobs eliminated in tech fields to 100,757, a rise of 77 percent over 2013. It was the first time that number rose above 100,000 since 2009, the first full year of the recent recession.
The biggest portion of those cuts occurred in the computer industry where 59,523 jobs were eliminated.
Lost tech jobs accounted for 21 percent of the total number of jobs — 483,171 — eliminated during 2014.
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I’m still sad about being laid off as a candle maker back in the day. D@mn You, Thomas Edison! D@mn you to H3ll! :)
Less people needed to fix stuff? Or the fact that EVERYTHING is disposable now, so people just throw out the old and upgrade?
Oh, and I’m CERTAIN 0bamacare has a HUGE impact - it’s impacted my company in a big way, too.
Automation, cloud, and offshoring are killing off domestic tech jobs. Infrastructure is starting to become a lean operation.
Gang of Six Unveils High-Tech Immigration Bill
Senators Back Bill To Ease Hiring of Foreign High-Tech Workers [Betrayal!!]
But we still need lots of H1B visas coming in from India because we aren’t producing enough STEM graduates. </sarcasm>
The only good thing as far as cloud computing for me is that the oppressive yoke of lotus notes will be burned on the ash heap of awful software.
Lotus is still out there. I agree, however, that it’s terrible.
I have to wonder how many of those “tech jobs” were actually technical jobs. Though jobs were lost in the tech industry, they could very well have been administrative, managerial or, sales and marketing people rather than techies.
I received an e-mail from a headhunter yesterday looking to fill a “manufacturing engineering” job. It was a combination of 7 different engineering jobs, with a list of duties so long that if you only spent 5 minutes a day on each of them, it would take 12+ hours to complete.
The middle class is screwed by the elites once again.
As an IBMer whose business unit just got bought by GlobalFoundries, one of my greatest hopes is that we will soon be able to eliminate Notes.
Perhaps they'll open source it at the end so we may print out the source code and immolate it with indignity.
Wait! I know! isolate the source onto a "fixed" disk drive and melt it on a charcoal grill to ensure it reaches the Curie point! (sort of like tossing it into the fires of Mt. Doom!)
Companies were being mismanaged and resorting to layoffs to prop up earnings long before Obamacare was passed. And they'll be doing it long after Obamacare is a distant memory.
The need for dedicated IT specialists has already been greatly reduced from ten years ago - but those who are still needed must be highly specialized and qualified. That's why companies are crying so loudly about H1B's - they aren't interested in hiring and re-training yesterday's generic IT retreads. The new game is "young blood/perfect skill-set match/low salary/short-term employment."
In my company, our “leadership” is looking for “Jacks of all trades” as opposed to specialists, and it’s frustrating those of us who are specialists.
I have several industry certifications and work as a Microsoft systems architect for my company. It’s actually tragic how many of Microsoft’s support engineers in India, eastern Europe, and Mexico don’t have certifications for Microsoft products. I’ve found myself figuring out a complex solution simply by talking to them and pinpointing a root cause. Yet, they’re able to hire 5 Indian consultants to 1 trained American, so it makes more fiscal sense for them to have warm bodies vs. technical skill.
Notes reminds me of Dr. Who’s Daleks and Cybermen. Even though apparently destroyed completely, finds a way back.
The Albanian State Washing Machine Company could come up with something better.
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