Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
by ThunderSizzle on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:44AM
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I find that an odd question. My initial take was that they went to non-tech companies that have substantial internal IT presence.
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Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
by MontyCarloHall on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:49AM
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From the original post, the next biggest category after “tech” is “Business & Professional Services“ at 24.2% of total (or 171 companies). This category includes - quoting the top few industries - financial services, business consulting, advertising services and recruitment.
With the exception of some financial services, these do not sound like industries whose companies have large internal IT presence.
The next largest categories are manufacturing/engineering, health, government, and energy. I agree that all of these fit your bill (government, perhaps less so).
Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
by wincy on Friday March 31, 2023 @05:44PM
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I work for a construction company and there’s like 15,000 employees but only like 500 of us are software engineers (we’re outnumbered a lot by other engineers, obviously) It’s still enough people to fill up a nice sized building.