IT workers are still in demand although things have slowed. Off from a peak of 11% annual growth, the demand for new IT workers continued to grow at 5% during the "downturn" with a continuation of the trend towards services as opposed to hardware. We'd bet that, if the stats were kept, job density on sites like Monster and HotJobs has returned to the mix of the late '90s. In those days, the question was whether or not the net would ever be really useful as a tool for recruiting non-IT workers.

The role of "IT" in the workplace is changing an array of things from the requirements for workers to be onsite to the level of technical training required for any job. This pressure, which results in the requirement that companies begin to invest deeply in the training of their employees and an upscaling of compensation  for those trained positions, is rapidly modifying the very definition of the workplace.

What is clear is the fact that the slightest growth uptick is going to heat up the competition for IT workers. The economy rapidly absorbed every "dislocated" professional while the economy slowed. Once new energy enters the economy, their will be a strong imbalance accentuated by a reduced access to H1B candidates.

We think the overall report is important enough to mention twice in a row. The world we are about to enter is different from the one they are talking about on TV.

- John Sumser

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