• Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/23/2013)


    Your assumptions ignore the fact that often IT groups find new opportunities, and can do so when more time is available. As IT operations improve, companies often invest more in that area. That's what we've seen across the last 40 years, and while it might not continue, it has to date.

    Any particular IT group/department/company could see layoffs. Overall as an industry, that's not what we've seen.

    That's what I meant; automation may mean the end for some departments or job descriptions, but the net effect for the industry as whole is no loss of jobs. No doubt there are a lot of people stuck in boring repetitive jobs who shrug when they learn their postion is being eliminated. They move on to some new and more rewarding role in IT, an opportunity that would not have become available had it not been for automation.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho