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Ratio of IT Department Workers To Overall Employees?

Posted by Soulskill on from the efficiency-and-critical-mass dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I was recently talking to a friend about the Fortune 100 company she works for in IT. She told me the company has 35,000 employees, including over 5,000 IT employees — and it's not a web firm. It has numerous consultants doing IT work as well. To me, from a background where my last job had 50 IT employees and 1,000 total, a 1-in-7 ratio of IT employees seems extremely high. Yet she mentioned even simple changes to systems/software take over six months. So, what ratio does your company have, and what is reasonable? How much does this differ by industry?" I'd be interested to see how much it differs by OS platform as well.

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  1. extremely high by bitflusher · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am the only human in my own little IT firm, that makes a 1 in 1 ratio...

  2. Re:That's a lot o' IT by dosius · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously. I can't see a company of that size needing more than maybe 25 total IT workers, and that's being generous.

    -uso.

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    What you hear in the ear, preach from the rooftop Matthew 10.27b
  3. Re:no set ratio by Ed+Avis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you have anyone in charge of making the coffee?

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    -- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
  4. Re:no set ratio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am more interested in the ratio of hotties to beasts in marketing.

  5. Re:no set ratio by hdparm · · Score: 5, Funny

    They do, java developer.

  6. Re:no set ratio by Mutant321 · · Score: 5, Funny

    how is this flamebait, its accurate.

    If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....

    I guess his sig proved right (seeing as he's now +5 Insightful :)

  7. How Many? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just left (in May) a company with 800 staff, 5 locations and a grand total of:

    1 IT Person..My boss with the 'Inventory Manager' (who also just left), and we had a 'JD Edwards/Report Writer/System Analyst, but he didn't know the difference between a server and a workstation.

    When I left, they had 0 IT people..and weren't planning to hire because of poor financials..I had been replacing dead p-4's with p-3's they had. Imagine giving a LOWER performance machine to an employee. OH..and BTW..this company happens to build hardware for the DOD..

  8. Re:Makes sense by $pace6host · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just imagined a .ppt bullet chart with bullet #4 being "Allow SQL code injections". Then I tried to imagine if anyone 2 levels up would notice it, understand it, or just check off the "review complete" milestone...