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| September 6, 2005 02:00 AM EDT |
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Employment of IT workers in August grew by 4,100 to 3,541,100, a .12% gain from the previous month, according to an index of IT employment developed by the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses – the fifth consecutive month of IT employment gains. Hurricane Katrina occurred after the survey period for the August employment report and did not affect the report, but could have at least a short-term impact on IT employment.
"Information technology plays a significant role in the energy and communications sectors," said Mark Roberts (pictured), NACCB CEO. "We anticipate some change in the number of IT professionals involved in getting the infrastructures back to speed and operating efficiently."
"Although the extent of the damage to the entire infrastructure of the affected region is still being assessed along with the human toll," Roberts continued, "we know that the infrastructures of the energy and communications sectors were badly damaged. How that will affect IT employment is unknown, but IT professionals will be needed to get those systems up and running and this process could take months as those systems get back online."
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