SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com
Study: IT workers more optimistic
Published: August 13, 2004, 3:11 PM PDT
By Ed Frauenheim
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Information technology workers in the United States are lifting their chins.
At least that's the conclusion of a recent study by staffing company Hudson, which found that IT workers had greater confidence in the employment market last month than they did in June. In addition, IT workers' optimism remained higher than that of U.S. workers overall, according to the study.
The Hudson "employment index" for IT workers rose to 112.1 in July, up 4 points from June and 11 points from May. Hudson's national index for July hit 108.4, up from 107.9 in June. The study, released earlier this month, involves surveying about 9,000 U.S. workers in industries including IT, health care and manufacturing.
The report isn't the only sign of better times for IT workers, who have weathered the dot-com collapse and faced job losses related to so-called offshoring. 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 percent in the second quarter of 2003....
For more, click on the link provided...