Scorecarding Tech Layoffs
October 24, 2008
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Loading ...As VoIP/SIP Trunking ties the telecommunications industry closer to the IT field, is the fate of the tech industry in the current economic climate a bellwether for the telecom industry? Hard to say for sure. The tech industry is certainly taking some hits from the economic perfect storm that continues to walk across the globe. It’s been said that mid and top tier tech companies are weathering the storm better than online and hardware vendors. 
However, any comparison between the two would have to account for their differences as well. Even without the economic crunch, the IT field has been going through an upheaval in areas such as open coding, application building, unified communications and value chain structure. By having to interop into this field via VoIP and data services, telecom will be affected to a much greater degree by IT than at any time previously.
Cnet news has posted a kind of “tech downturn” scorecard that tracks the tech industry fortunes at its most visible point: layoffs. It’s published by Goggle Docs and updated every 5 minutes. Looks like somebody’s keeping their job. Check it out here
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Welcome to the site Peter! Enjoyed your first post.