Full-time IT job security increasingly wobbly
In June, the Texas Department of Transportation shifted its IT operations to an outsourcing services firm, affecting some 300 employees. IT workers were promised six months of job security with the outsourcing firm, which has recently ended.
Layoffs were announced this week, a figure put at less than a dozen by NTT Data, the services company that took over the Texas DOT's IT operations.
The decision by the Texas DOT to outsource information technology operations fits squarely into an IT job pattern that dominated last year. Hiring by IT services and consulting firms outstripped all other IT hiring last year as companies increasingly shifted to using contingent workers, IT services and consulting firms, according to an analysis by David Foote, who heads the labor research group Foote Partners.
