Posted on 10/26/2021 3:38:07 AM PDT by markomalley
Tech and IT workers' resignations risk "spiralling out of control" as chronic burnout, limited career progression, and unrealistic demands from employers prompt technology industry employees to jump ship.
New research by training platform TalentLMS and Workable, a provider of recruiting software, suggests that tech and IT workers are likely to be planning an exit soon. In a survey of 1,200 tech and IT workers in the US, nearly three-quarters (72%) said they intended to quit within the next year.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the quit rate in the US hit a record high of 4.3 million in August 2021, while data from Bankrate the same month suggests that approximately half of the US workforce plans to leave their job within the next 12 months.
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Who is John Galt?
Wait until the mandate hits federal contractors.
Are they going to work from home ? Maybe take calls from india?
Itās the ultimate outcome of working sixteen hour days seven days a week with no end in sight
They’ll just go back to their mom’s basement.
Iāve got friends that are in that situation. My company hasnāt had us doing that.
IT workers work their asses off. Most normals can't handle the stress.
Most will take it easy and become farmers and hire illegals to pick the crop.
If they don’t drive the U.S. IT workers away then how are they going to replace them with cheaper H-1bs?
I retired after selling my business and have been taking gigs in the Spring for playing around money and to have something to do, but the last couple were in SCRUM environments and I was not impressed at all. They spend all day having meetings with a hundred people about checking little boxes and meetings to discuss having more meetings and meetings about who is to blame for some of the little pieces not fitting together/working with other pieces. Piles of garbage designed and built by committee.
I told this particular tech firm to never call me again if it's an Agile gig. I don't need the money, really, and I'm not THAT bored.
Can't blame anybody else for fleeing that disaster.
Most IT jobs are dangling the “100% remote” carrot now for seasoned IT talent with just one caveat. They have to be physically located in the USA. The companies will do this even if it means the employer pays 10k+ per month extra. Companies are willing to fork out this extra dough for them to be geolocated in the USA, even if their employees are US citizens and willing to travel back to the USA as needed for business trips.
forget how to code
Every now and then you kinda make sense.
For the vast majority of IT workers that’s untrue, I spent my career in IT Support, personally I put over 1 million frequent flyer miles on the board traveling all over the USA American doing IT conversions and support....
I worked out of my house for the last 15-20 years most of that time with a packed suitcase ready to fly to California from Florida, get off the plane and work another 10-12 hours, get up and do it again and again, then fly to Michigan or NY and to the same thing.....
Was I very well compensated, absolutely but after 38 years it begins to wear on you...
Bottom Line, IT work for many people is not sitting in a cubicle cranking out software code.....
You sound similar to me, I didn’t sell a business but I was a IT Contractor, specializing in Cisco Systems routers, switches and VOIP conversions and support...
I was all over the country working on conversion, when I started to have co-workers and managers where I was old enough to be their father, it became apparent I was a dinosaur and seriously considered getting out of the business...
I get recruiting emails and cold calls from Stateside recruiters (with a decent percentage being corporate recruiters or those from a reputable staffing company) trying to get me to sign on for one of those gigs. This, although my profiles on LinkedIn, Indeed, and Clearance all clearly say that I am only interested in work in SE Asia and PLEASE don't contact me for work within the US.
So my first question is if I can work from Thailand.
And I always get a big NOPE. Followed by a *click*.
(Not that I am really interested in working for a US company any longer, but I'm just curious if one of them actually say that it's possible)
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I wonder how if the people who worked their fingers to the bone for the 3rd Reich felt after seeing the results of their labors?
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