High-Tech Turnaround
By Paul Epps
High-Tech Industry Employment Slowly Turns the Corner, Says New Report
I’ve been suckered by so many headlines like this . . .
I clicked that link, only to learn that while high-tech employment continued to decline in 2004, it did so at a lower rate than the two previous years.
Hence, the job market has turned around, if by “turned around” you mean “continued to disintegrate, but at a slower pace.”
Thus spoke The Programmer.
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