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IT unemployment rate hits five-year high
News Unemployment in the IT and telecoms industry has hit a five-year high, new research from industry skills body e-skills UK has found. In the first quarter of this year, the unemployment rate among ICT workers hit 4.8 percent — its highest level...
[August 7, 2009, 11:21]
Unemployment highest among IT graduates
News IT graduates have the highest unemployment rate across all degree subjects at almost double the average for students leaving UK university courses, according to new figures from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu).
[January 3, 2007, 15:23]
Offshoring fears hit US IT workers, but unemployment is down
News Technology services companies say they're hiring, and unemployment rates have dropped for tech workers. Technology sector workers in the United States are feeling less bullish about the job market, according to a new study.
[October 7, 2004, 11:20]
Offshoring fears hit US IT workers, but unemployment is down
Talkback Yes, I returned to work (at least a few months) to find I am a minority. You guessed it, big American Corp as replaced most of the chairs there with Indian slaves ready and willing to work long hours cheap.
[October 10, 2004, 19:49]
Offshoring fears hit US IT workers, but unemployment is down
Talkback Is the number of tech workers actually dropping, or are the HTML coders, script "developers", and other such inexperienced juniors just finally realizing they aren't "computer people" like some tech schools promised?
[October 7, 2004, 17:31]
Statistics mask tough job market
News Unemployment is down and optimism is up for some tech professionals, according to federal statistics and a recent independent survey. Unemployment dropped even more dramatically for electrical and electronic engineers -- from 6.7 percent in the...
[August 19, 2004, 16:40]
IT contractors focus on job security
News Long-term unemployment is on the up for UK IT contractors and job-security fears are increasingly on their minds. Long-term unemployment has increased by 11 percent in the past three months, to 5.3 percent of contractors, compared to 4.7 percent in...
[October 29, 2008, 6:30]
Laid off or fired? Questionable corporate policies blur the line
News It seems to be a common topic of conversation lately, so we began swapping notes about our experiences in unemployment. They would also reject any claim I made for unemployment benefits. With this new information, I was able to argue to receive...
[May 28, 2002, 13:28]
From high-tech to blue collar
News According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in the United States was 5.6 percent in January -- relatively low for a recession, which typically generates unemployment rates of 8 percent or more in the United States.
[February 8, 2002, 14:07]
Pricing scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback It's only in the EU that we can have a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, wasting tax payers money for over a year, arguing about what name to call a version of Windows that nobody wants, and nobody wants to sell or buy, at a time when EU...
[June 27, 2005, 23:38]
Demand for IT staff drops
News IT unemployment rates also rose during the first quarter of the year to 3.7 percent for those working in the IT industry and 2.7 percent for those tech staff working in other vertical sectors - although that remains below the overall UK...
[September 5, 2005, 16:15]
IT workers feel the layoff fear
News In addition, the unemployment rate for employees in computer and maths occupations has dropped to an average of 4.5 percent for the first three quarters of this year from an average of 5.6 percent during the first three quarters of 2003, according...
[December 2, 2004, 8:20]
IT workers grow in optimism
News According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate for computer-related occupations -- which includes computer programmers and computer system analysts and scientists -- dropped to 4.5 percent in the second quarter of this year from 5.4...
[August 16, 2004, 14:25]
Tech workers left out of economic recovery
News That's much lower than the unemployment rate of previous downturns, including the 1990 to 1991 recession, when unemployment topped out at 7.8 percent. But unemployment in the tech sector, which was particularly stung during the downturn in 2000 and...
[March 21, 2002, 16:25]
Surge in traffic hints at upturn
News According to the latest report on unemployment, San Jose, California, had the second highest rate of joblessness in the country, at 7.9 percent. Henton said jobs are being created, but federal unemployment statistics don't reflect that.
[October 3, 2003, 10:04]
US Report: Is the 'nerd' factor keeping women out of high-tech?
News That report shows employment levels for IT professionals nearly doubled between 1987 and 1997, and that unemployment among computer professionals in 1997 was 1.3 percent, less than one-third the unemployment rate for all workers.
[October 20, 1998, 14:01]
A Year Ago: Is the 'nerd' factor keeping women out of high-tech?
News That report shows employment levels for IT professionals nearly doubled between 1987 and 1997, and that unemployment among computer professionals in 1997 was 1.3 percent, less than one-third the unemployment rate for all workers.
[October 18, 1999, 7:00]
Tech jobs may be safer than in dot-com crash
News After the bust, it was one of the few times technology unemployment was higher than the national average. Technology unemployment for computer and mathematical occupations soared to 6.5 percent in March 2003, compared with the national average of...
[October 22, 2008, 9:52]
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Downloads Weights and MeasuresCountry Profiles: Administrative divisions Age structure Agriculture - products Airports - with paved runways Airports - with unpaved runways Airports Area - comparative Area Background Birth rate Budget Capital Climate...
[October 25, 2007, 8:00]
The Day Ahead: Economy at a crossroads
News The cornerstone for Greenspan's insistence on raising interest rates has always hinged on the theory that lower unemployment means higher wage pressure and, thus, escalating inflation. All this doom and gloom for the Dow comes after some rosy...
[March 8, 2000, 11:33]
