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Growth in global tech threatened as skills crisis reaches all-time high, finds world’s largest digital leadership survey
LONDON, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

- Crisis worsens as workers re-assess their priorities or leave for more money
- Shortage in cyber security professionals highest ever – jumping by nearly a 
  quarter this year
- Number of women working in tech continues to rise at a snail’s pace  
- 6 in 10 digital leaders report a decrease in the mental wellbeing of their 
  tech teams
- Climate Change - companies are missing the opportunity to reduce the carbon 
  footprint of power hungry tech

The seemingly unending growth in the global tech sector is under threat as 
massive skills shortages reach an all-time high just as companies across the 
world signal their intentions to increase technology investment (60% intend to) 
and headcount (61%) to record levels, finds the world’s largest and longest 
running survey of senior technology decision makers. 

The Harvey Nash Group Digital Leadership Report 
[https://www.harveynashgroup.com/DLR], in collaboration with CIONET and 
contributed to by Massachusetts Institute of Technology CISR also found that as 
the global tech skills crisis reaches new heights, 8 in 10 digital leaders 
report that, post-pandemic, new life priorities amongst staff are making 
retention even more difficult. 4 in 10 globally admit they can’t keep key 
people as long as they would like, as they’re being lured away by the offer of 
more money. Only 1 in 3 organisations (32%) have redesigned their employee 
offer to make it attractive to staff in the new hybrid working world.

Bev White, CEO of Harvey Nash Group said: 

“With businesses planning record levels of digital investment, we could be 
standing on the verge of a ‘second renaissance’ for technology. Organisations 
are looking to push their digital transformations further and faster than ever 
before, putting technology at the very heart of how they operate. This will 
take them beyond being merely ‘tech-centric’: technology will literally be 
dispersed throughout the business, everywhere.”

Full release here: 
[https://www.harveynashgroup.com/post/growth-in-global-tech-threatened-as-skills
-crisis-reaches-all-time-high-finds-worlds-largest-digital-leadership-survey]

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