As a follow up to one of my earlier posts questioning the availability of those purported six figure incomes, here we analyze some of the numerous reasons why people quit the IT industry. Quit? What? Here you have organizations claiming six, even seven figure salaries, and yet, you have people quitting? Hah! Surely someones in the wrong – and I'm assuming its those who lure us into the industry by claiming those million dollar salaries.
CIO Insight recently conducted a survey hoping to determine any gender bias that may exist as to why people quit the industry that we seem to be inundated with. Uh wait – the most popular argument was “better pay or benefits.” Say what now? From a gender split, it was a 64 – 35 response (men, and women) 41% men surveyed would quit to learn new skills or, wait for it, wait for it – to do more interesting work! What the hell is going on here? Doesn't this show the true image of the industry, rather than those absurd job listings? Is the only viable argument one that states that countries are looking to promote their own domestic applicants, or is it that there are no jobs available?
Barring the above, you had traditional arguments such as management / employee conflicts, flexibility of work hours, and such – but the above discussion paints a rather gory picture doesn't it? Its either a grade-schoolers artwork, or a handful of turtles, running around on a flat surface with paint brushes attached to their tails. Given the prominent result of the latter, or at least, thats what comics have us believe, I'm going to categorize the industry as the former.
Tersely, given the above analysis, I'm not even going to bother dipping my feet in a discussion relating to the murky waters that are the Pakistani IT industry. Reckon its another discussion for another day – in the meantime, you may want to check out the detailed presentation at CIO Insight here - but for the time being, from my end, thats' a wrap!
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