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Tech Employment Drops Sharply In 2004

Posted by timothy on from the statistics-are-what-they-are dept.

Cryofan writes "According to Information Week, the lastest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years, and the number of programmers, analysts, and support specialists has fallen 15% since the first six months of 2004. According to IT World, the number of employed Software Engineers fell by 15% from April to July of 2004 (from 856,000 to 725,000)."

4 of 557 comments (clear)

  1. It's Open Source's Fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    This is what happens when you people give away the fruits of your labor for free. You can't blame anyone but yourselves for this.

    Microsoft and others were right about OSS. It destroys jobs and is flatly Un-American.

    You people have reaped what you sowed.

  2. Thankfully... by Treebiter1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...everyone is losing their jobs in nice, whole numbers. Keeps the statistics nice and pretty that way.

  3. Wow by Moth7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to Information Week, the lastest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the number of Americans calling themselves IT professionals has decreased by nearly 160,000 in the last 3 years.

    In other news, the number of IT professionals getting laid has increased, mainly due to lying about their geek stereotyped profession ;-)

  4. Re:a few remarks by AndroidCat · · Score: 4, Funny
    Truck driving seems to be a big thing with a real shortage. Not as slack-sounding as an IT job leading to dot.com rockstar wealth (like the commercials seemed to say) but hopefully it'll draw some of them away.

    I, for one, welcome our 18+-wheel Devry-trained highway juggernaut overlords. (Something has to prey on the SUV populations.)

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