IT Workers Could Be Spared In The Recession

IT Workers Could Be Spared In The Recession

Corporate IT support departments could be spared from the job cuts that will hit other business operations, according to one analyst.
Joe Pucciarelli, technical financing programme director at IDC, told reporters in San Francisco that IT support operations have become such a central part of so many organisations that they will not take a major hit.

Pucciarelli's comments came during a rollout of HP's latest line of business transformation outsourcing software and services. The analyst believes that, while the market for such IT products could shrink, it will not dry up all together.

"Don't tell me how much the new technology can do, tell me how much I can save by buying it," said Pucciarelli. "That is going to be the investment strategy inside all companies for at least the next two years."