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- WORKFORCE, BENEFITS OF IMMIGRATION:
Eight of the 11 U.S. residents who shared Nobel prizes
in physics and chemistry in the past three years were
born elsewhere (Wall Street Journal, Mar. 1, 2001).
- WORKFORCE, BENEFITS OF IMMIGRATION:
Slightly more than half the 15,900 foreigners who received
doctoral degrees in science and engineering in 1992 and
1993 were still here in 1997, according to a count by
Michael Finn of Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Engineering
in Tennessee.
- WORKFORCE: Demand for IT workers is
down 44 percent from 2000, but employers will still attempt
to fill more than 900,000 new IT jobs in 2001. (ITAA,
Apr. 2001).
- WORKFORCE: Europe's IT industry continues
to experience a skills shortage, with 44% of companies
in the region unable to fill IT positions despite an increase
in layoffs over the past few months. (silicon.com,
Mar. 2001)
- WORKFORCE: Information technology
accounts for approximately 7% of the nation's workforce.
(ITAA,
Apr. 2001).
- WORKFORCE: More than 10.4 million
people in the United States are IT workers, and this number
does not include jobs in government, nonprofit organizations
or small entrepreneurial firms. (ITAA,
Apr. 2001).
- WORKFORCE: Preliminary figures from
the U.S. Department of Labor show that between
February and March of this year, companies in the computer
and data processing sector added -- not dropped -- a combined
total of 12,000 jobs. In fact, the March 2001 data
show a jump of 100,000 jobs from a year ago. http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,43101,00.html
- WORKFORCE: US computer professionals
worked an average of 45 hours a week this year, an increase
of 36% from 1999. Working hours rose by 30% outside the
US. (Longer hours due to increasing complexity of technology
projects, which has led to a rise in on-the-job learning.
(Meta Group, 2001).
- WORKPLACE EFFICIENCY: 70% of US workers
say that email has improved communication with their manager
or employer. (Vault,
June 2000).
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- Research organizations differ
on many measurements and predictions. Cisco Systems cannot
verify the accuracy of all of the findings. We include
all credible information to offer a glimpse into the range
of estimates and predictions.
- Abbreviations / acronyms
used herein are defined and explained more fully in the
issue briefs available at Cisco’s public policy page.
Most common acronyms include DSL (digital subscriber line
service, which is high speed Internet access over telephone
lines); WAN (wide area network connections link different
organizations such as schools across a region); LAN (local
area network connections link computers within an organization)
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