DocumentCode
1510420
Title
The Euro, Y2K, and the US software labor shortage
Author
Jones, Capers
Author_Institution
Artemis Manage. Syst., Burlington, MA, USA
Volume
16
Issue
3
fYear
1999
Firstpage
55
Lastpage
61
Abstract
Estimates of unfilled software engineering, management and support jobs in the US range from 100,000 to more than 300,000. Projects addressing Y2K repairs and euro currency conversion could push the total shortfall to 600,000 jobs. Since there is no reasonable way of filling this many jobs, many companies are deferring substantial volumes of normal software development and maintenance work. The paper considers the size of the YK2 and euro problems in the US and discusses software occupations and specialties
Keywords
data integrity; human resource management; personnel; software development management; software maintenance; Y2K problem; Year 2000 problem; companies; euro currency conversion; management jobs; software engineering jobs; software labor shortage; software maintenance; software occupations; Application software; Computer industry; Embedded software; Engineering management; Filling; Personnel; Programming; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/52.765788
Filename
765788
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