Companies More Likely To Outsource Than Train IT Employees

snydeq writes "IT pros feeling the pressure to boost tech skills should expect little support from their current employers, according to a recent report on IT skills. '9 in 10 business managers see gaps in workers' skill sets, yet organizations are more likely to outsource a task or hire someone new than invest in training an existing staff. Perhaps worse, a significant amount of training received by IT doesn't translate to skills they actually use on the job.'"

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Lazy employees are lazy

[Taco Cowboy]

If the employees do not want to make themselves better, they can blame anything and everything, including blaming the companies to be cheap

When I started working, as a low rank IT personnel, nobody gave me any help. I had to do everything on my own

In college, they did not teach me a lot more things that I had to learn / relearn when I am out in the working world

For example, in college I was trained in Cobol and Fortran, but in the real world they were using C

I bought/borrowed/stole books; I joined computer clubs; I post questions on echomail (on Fidonet) and also on programming-related newsgroups in Usenet; I took evening/weekend classes.... I did everything to learn the things that I knew I need to climb up the corporate ladder

Did I call my company cheap?

No

Why not?

Because the companies I worked for aren't responsible to train me - their only responsibility is to make as much money to their stake/share holders

It is the responsibility of the workers to train/retrain themselves

Those who call their companies cheap are the one who are too lazy, too incompetent, having no incentive to train/retrain themselves in order to become better

Re:Lazy employees are lazy

[Taco Cowboy]

The issue isn't that companies have some sort of moral obligation to train their employees. They are free to train, outsource, hire, whatever.

The point is that it usually ends up more expensive to not invest in your workforce. It's one of those save a penny today. lose a pound tomorrow.

That's for the corporation (the employer) to decide

In the meanwhile, the workers (the employees) can invest in themselves, by learning new skills

But in the world we live in, there are way too many employees who do NOT want the hassle in self-improvement, rather, they just sit there and whine and bitch and complain, about their "cheap companies"

As you can see for yourself how many of those whiners in this thread