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Re: Interesting Article... fewest jobs lost in Tech Writing

Subject: Re: Interesting Article... fewest jobs lost in Tech Writing
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 18:40:16 -0400


Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- PinnacleWest -dot- com wrote:

This ComputerWorld article talks about the IT workforce being down by 5% with the provocative sentence:

"The groups that lost the fewest number of jobs were digital media specialists, technical writers and enterprise systems support workers."

(It's nice to be counted!)

http://computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/story/0%2C10801%2C70888%2C00.html?nlid=PM



Rosie,

I wouldn't take much comfort in what could easily be a statistical artifact. If you are already down to zero digital media people, one tech writer, and one IT person and you decide maybe you don't want to cut those departments any further, all other categories are going to take a bigger hit percentagewise whenever there is a layoff.

It's like saying you're going to double the salaries of all the volunteers. Sounds good, but doesn't do anything for the volunteers.

Dick


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