The crisis has sacked more than a hundred thousand IT-specialists.

KommentariiShagrenevaya kozha03.12.2008V Europe continued massive reduction shtatovBez output posobiya18.11.2008Veduschie banks around the world began to reduce staffing sotrudnikovBolee hundred thousand IT-specialists have lost work because of the global financial crisis, said TechCrunch. According to the publication by mid-December, 300 companies working in the field of technology, were laid off 109,629 people.
Only 4 December in this area lost more than 18 thousand employees. One of the world's largest telecommunications holding companies, the U.S. AT & T, announced that it had sacked 12 thousand people. In addition, the Japanese unit of IBM staff was reduced by 2.5 thousand employees. To dismiss said, and other IT-companies.
Earlier dismissals began in the Internet company Yahoo!. In the near future, the search engine will reduce about ten percent of staff - 1.5 thousand. Another search engine, Google, in late November announced his intention to dismiss up to ten thousand employees in the company of freelancers.
The financial crisis has forced many large companies to reduce costs of production. In particular, the banking sector, which suffered most from the crisis, the work has already lost more than 160 thousand people.