IT Workers / 35 percent plan to look for another job in the next year survey finds

It’s challenging to find great information technology (IT) employees, but keeping them may be even harder, new research from Robert Half Technology suggests. Although most Chief Information Officers (CIOs) recently surveyed (70 percent) rate their workers’ satisfaction levels fairly high, more than one-third (35 percent) of IT workers polled said they plan to look for another job in the next year, and another 35 percent are unsure about whether they’ll stay. Chief contributing factors to IT workers’ search for greener pastures are the need for new challenges and a lack of career advancement potential.

The CIO survey was developed by Robert Half Technology, a leading provider of IT professionals on a project and full-time basis, and conducted by an independent research firm. The survey is based on more than 270 telephone interviews with CIOs from a random sample of Canadian companies with 100 or more employees. The IT worker survey was developed and conducted by Robert Half Technology, and the responses are from more than 7,500 IT workers from across North America who participated in a web survey.

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