What does it take to get from here to there and back? Come on, let’s not joke, sugarcoat, or oversimplify our situation. As current or new business model processes and technologies replace legacy ones, it is absolutely essential to challenge “creative destruction”.
Technology, without a doubt, is and continues to be the largest generator of employment in the country and quite possibly in the world. In fact, our country has been bleeding jobs on all other countries’ shores.
As many hierarchical “talking heads” made promises regarding the mobile industry and public and private Wi-Fi networks, partnerships were being forged. These clandestine plans included Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York, and other smaller metropolitan areas. Everyone was coming up with a way to create millions upon thousands of jobs and also close the digital divide. This challenge was being addressed with the implementation of very heavy foundations.
“A display that big is tenuous,” says Rob Preston. Mr. Preston is Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Information Week’s technical magazine. He says metropolitan Wi-Fi service providers went bankrupt while equipment vendors sought higher ground. Also, the government opportunists moved on to the next big project.
Despite the fact that the national unemployment rate remains at a dismal nine percent, technology providers and lawmakers take credit for creating jobs: millions of new jobs in the United States.
Many of you may be aware that other parts of the economy are losing jobs just as fast as the tech industry is creating them. These job creation claims are exaggeration at best – a bunch of hogwash.
According to Preston, the cloud, mobile, apps and big data claim to create millions of US jobs, and yet the national unemployment rate is 8.3 percent, and most likely , higher than that. Many people are not counted due to their inability to qualify for unemployment compensation benefits. These people are most likely not being counted or added to the roles they consistently cite, creating an undercount.
The job creation claims that it makes sense for Microsoft to target cloud providers. Technology providers plan to double their workforce this year. They say mobile and cloud apps are creating millions of US jobs.
That unnerving boast makes me wonder; If that’s the case, why is the national unemployment rate at all-time highs? US unemployment numbers read between eight and ten percent. These figures are devastating for the American economic system.
IDC reported in a recent statement that the cloud computing movement would create more than 13 million technology and related jobs worldwide by 2015.
Mr. Preston also recorded in his report that Seattle-based Vorsite and its partners plan to double their workforce before the end of the year. However, IDC and Microsoft dispute the scale of the private and public cloud economies. To free up funds for new business ventures, they would have to reduce the client’s IT and processing costs. This move will also add jobs. His analysis omitted efficiencies achieved through infrastructure consolidation. This overlooked fact will kill IT jobs even if it creates new jobs elsewhere. This author certainly agrees with Rob Preston when he realized that putting a number in net earnings in this case is more conjecture than science. It is nonsense to determine that jobs that are relocated are expected to demonstrate a more productive ROI.
The idea of mergers seems to always result in job cuts as the parent company begins to eliminate redundant jobs. He promised to bring home five thousand outsourced wireless call center jobs. A combination of abilities was attributed to part of the unemployment and the purge or the creation system. Unfortunately, they have created 5,000 more IT jobs… while twelve point eight million people in the United States were unable to acquire gainful employment. So many new jobs, and a point a million others have just given up on job search efforts, and just left.
Big data CIOs seek business intelligence and analytics expertise. Another sector, according to a report last year by a US organization, could face a shortage of 100,000 to 200,000 people by 2018. These are the people with deep analytical skills along with more than a million managers and analysts who know how to use the big data analysis system – enabling effective decision making. With new jobs come new training and the requirement to retrain existing ones.
500 MHz will be released as part of an agreement with the FCC’s National Wireless Broadband Communications Agency: broadcasters that auction off broadband wireless communications control the underused spectrum. The FCC Chairman treats the proposed auctions as a government jobs program.
“Few areas hold more promise for job creation than mobile technology,” he told the audience at a consumer electronics show.
Shell Gamers and mobile technology are the main attraction of job creation. In a desperate bid to get a $39 billion deal to take over T-Mobile approved, AT&T had enough guts to argue how a merger would create thousands of new American jobs, Preston reported.
AT&T attached some of those jobs to the billions of dollars. They said they would spend for the expansion of their mobile broadband network.
The Analysis Group conducted a study for apple. It is for indirect job creation numbers. The analysis applied to an employment multiplier; the Federal Office for Economic Analysis created this tool. The congressional budget office estimated how many stimulus jobs were created in 2009. The fluctuating numbers danced between 1.6 million and 8.4 million.
The Analysis Group did not include in its job creation estimates bus drivers, delivery drivers, managers, butchers, bakers, and candle makers, as well as others who may or may not owe their livelihood to the financial greatness of Apple and its employees. , in some way or manner.
Microsoft is not alone in the employment figures fiasco. Like Apple, the friends are under fire for their employment practices. At some of the factories, foreign suppliers published the results of a study they commissioned to claim responsibility and credit for creating and sustaining 500,000 jobs in the US Partner companies and suppliers created 257,000 of they; they claim to have created glass manufacturers and shipping companies. Third-party application development companies claimed forty-seven thousand new jobs, which were absorbed as direct employment positions. Apple’s claim to fame is, of course, that these jobs wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for them.
South Mountain Economics used a multiplier to estimate the employment numbers of the app economy relative to the rest of the US economy. It was noted that multipliers of 2.4 and 3.4 have been used to compare the employment impact of the spread of broadband across the country and the multipliers compared to other studies. A conservative figure of 1.5 served as payoff. It would appear that every job in the app economy generates another 0.5 jobs in the rest of the US economy.
Technet, a lobby group representing CEOs and other executives in the technology industry, released a separate study. They found that the so-called app economy — third-party lightweight app development for Amazon, Google, RIM (Research In Motion), Microsoft, Zynga, Facebook, and Apple along with a host of others — has created a total of about five : 100,000 direct and indirect US jobs since the introduction of the iPhone and its creation on the App Store.
How’s that for business savvy analytical analysis of employment numbers and assessment of job creation and destruction?
Sentiment Analysis is measuring the mood of Social Networks and is being incorporated by companies that monitor Community Driven Websites. New tactics and skill sets are definitely needed to gain a foothold in the new world of IT, communications, and analytics.
People talk, right? All it takes is a cloud…
Until next time…