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Survey: Majority of IT specialists are looking for new jobs
Given the bright career prospects, many IT professionals around the world are looking for new jobs. Photo: Britta Pedersen / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
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IT specialists and software engineers are in demand around the world. Unpleasant for some employers: According to a survey, the willingness to change jobs is very high.
Given the bright career prospects, many IT professionals around the world are looking for new jobs.
In a survey by the management consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG) of 9,864 employees in the IT industry worldwide, almost three quarters (73 percent) said that they would like to look for a new job in the next two to three years. The main motive for being unfaithful to the previous employer is the hope of better career opportunities – that is what 63 percent of the participants answered.
In Germany there were 648 respondents, 79 percent of whom had the idea of changing jobs. BCG published the investigation on Tuesday in Munich. This is part of an international online survey of over 208,000 employees in over 190 countries and was created in collaboration with The Network, an international network of job placement portals. However, the survey period in late autumn last year was a while ago.
The participants came from many industries, not just the software industry. Employees from industry or the healthcare sector who work in IT jobs were also surveyed. The desire for flexible working hours and the possibility of at least part of the time to work at home is also cross-border: only five percent wanted to spend their entire working hours in the office. Exactly a quarter, on the other hand, did not want to go to the company at all, but only wanted to work from home.
However, the willingness to go abroad for a new job has decreased – possibly due to the corona. In the previous survey in 2018, over two-thirds said they were ready to move abroad. In 2020 it was 55 percent.