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235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the negative-forecasts dept.

RonMcMahon writes "According to a CNN Money article, Forrester Research is predicting that there will be 235,396 fewer Computer Programmers and Software Engineers employed in 2015 than there are today in America. This is a 25% reduction in the number of positions from today's depressed numbers. This sucks. I know that many companies are moving work off-shore, but wow, that's half the population of Wyoming!"

2 of 982 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Big Deal by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    > you better start looking elseware What a neat term for software made by overseas contract programmers Elseware

  2. Wasted my mod points yetsterday by revscat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wasted my last mod point last night modding something as funny. After reading your post, I really regret doing that.

    Dammit.