Are Vacations Becoming Extinct in IT?
As vacation season approaches, more IT professionals than any year since the recession started will be going on vacation. This is a great sign, but there’s a slightly more unfortunate trend going on, as well. The IT recruiters and IT contractors who are all taking these vacations will still be in touch with their IT managers or doing remote work for their IT jobs. Why?
Though smartphones, wifi, and featherlight laptops and tablets aren’t new, they’re becoming more and more widespread in all fields (and of course especially information technology). Employers have slowly begun to expect workers who will respond on a 24/7 basis, or at least near it. There are plenty of benefits and cons to this change in the workforce, but the way employees spend their vacations is probably the most remarkable. Only time will tell whether employees will continue to accept this kind of 24/7 standard of availability, or vacations will become extinct all together.
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