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IT != "Tech jobs", one is a superset of the other. A good chunk of the entire "IT industry" is going to be tech support, computer repair, technical sales/analys
by deaddodo 3y ago
IT != "Tech jobs", one is a superset of the other. A good chunk of the entire "IT industry" is going to be tech support, computer repair, technical sales/analysts, etc. Not the kind of jobs you are thinking of when people say "tech jobs" (jobs at FAANG and the like). It doesn't include the dozens of thousands of on-prem IT people at schools and the like.
- randomdata 3y agoYes, you are right that tech jobs encompass even more than IT, but that means the total number of tech jobs was even larger than 3.45 million. Yet the original claim was that there were only ~750,000 tech jobs in total across the USA. That remains hard to believe. I, like the commenter that set the context, can find it easier to believe that 300,000 jobs were lost at tech companies, representing 40% of jobs at tech companies. No doubt, the vast majority of tech work happens outside of tech companies – probably doubly so back then when it was the norm to do everything in-house rather than outsource a lot of the work to tech companies like we see today. But the comment I replied to discounts that notion, so here we are...