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GUEST OPINION by ManageEngine product consultant Ashwin Ram: As the economy reopens, IT leaders are in the hot seat, charged with ensuring their teams and technology stacks can support recovery, growth, and an array of flexible working arrangements, writes ManageEngine product consultant Ashwin Ram.

GUEST OPINION by ManageEngine product consultant Ashwin Ram: As the economy reopens, IT leaders are in the hot seat, charged with ensuring their teams and technology stacks can support recovery, growth, and an array of flexible working arrangements, writes ManageEngine product consultant Ashwin Ram.

The employment prospects for IT contractors are on the improve with a new recruitment survey revealing that the overall majority of Australian chief information officers are planning to increase their contract IT headcount by an average of 21% over the next 12 months.

Swiss bank Credit Suisse has found an easy way to get rid of IT employees as part of a cost-cutting drive: simply transfer them to the Indian outsourcing company which is doing its work.

IT workers at the state-supported University of California are set to file a case this week against their being replaced by workers from the Indian outsourcing company HCL.

Australian IT professionals are seemingly an unsettled lot, with many of them planning to jump ship and look for a new job in the next 12 months, and others prepared to move from their current employer if approached with the right offer.