Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump

CWmike writes "Companies have cut salaries and training, held back on bonuses and piled more work on employees in response to the economic downturn. These tactics may well be pushing many IT pros to go job hunting, Computerworld's latest salary poll has found. More than one third (36%) of the 343 respondents to a recent poll said they are looking to move to a new employer in the next six months. And 69% reported they had not received a pay raise in the past six months. The poll was conducted during the last two weeks in September. For employers, the warning could not be more clear. As the economy improves, the most able IT workers may leave for something better."

Comments

Re:As the economy improves???

[clarkkent09]

My guess is that the economy will improve pretty quickly after November elections if Republicans win. Not because they will do anything major but because the businesses will start spending and hiring more once the prospects of more oppressive regulation and higher taxes are diminished. So if you want some easy money, buy stocks now and hope for a Republican win.

Re:Unionize.

[Maltheus]

This industry already has enough deadweight, corporate welfare queens as it is. It blows my mind that anyone can still suggest this in this day and age. Unions have destroyed every industry they've touched and state union pensions are on the verge of bankrupting every state in the union.

Re:As the economy improves???

[CAIMLAS]

What, are you kidding me? Half the people I knew growing up lived on farms or ranches and I never saw anything but:

* Parents working from 6a-8pm (or more) every damn day (except for Sunday, in which cases they tried to do nothing but usually got drafted for something).
* Moms who cooked 2-3 full meals, every day.
* Certain parts of the year were full-time jobs - and by that, I mean you get maybe 2-3 hours of sleep between your days, and eat while you're working: branding season, haying season, harvest season. Other parts of the year are full of planning for the next, or waiting for things to grow - but there is always "one more thing" to do (much like, say, IT/sysadmin work).
* Parents who wore tattered rags (comparably) and patched clothes so their children could have hot meals at school.
* The children had 1-2 hours of chores every day, more on summers.
* When the parents retired, the kids took over the farm. Many of these farms have/had multiple houses for multiple generations of family members (as well as hired workers). When they got married or wanted to live on their own, there was 'free' housing available.

This is a way of life, and not a particularly bad one. It is full of leisure time if you care to take it (during certain parts of the year), and nobody is your boss but yourself (and your wife and/or parents, of course). It has a lot of intrinsic value which is not present in most other career choices, allowing for cohesive families, land ownership, and freedom.

You speak as someone who doesn't know and who couldn't care - a modern 'educated' urban bigot.