The past five years have seen tens of thousands of engineers and IT professionals laid off and having trouble finding work, even as technology executives complain they can’t find the right high tech skills and therefore need a major increase in the number of H1-B guestworkers. Those engineers and IT workers who still have jobs have seen their salaries remain essential remain flat since 2000.
Source: http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/the-changing-pattern-of-stem-worker-employment
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