RE: Interesting Article... fewest jobs lost in Tech Writing

Subject: RE: Interesting Article... fewest jobs lost in Tech Writing
From: "Fiona Hurley" <fiona -dot- hurley -at- gtnet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:59:34 +0100



> > "The groups that lost the fewest number of jobs were digital media
> > specialists, technical writers and enterprise systems support workers."
>
> There may be fewer tech writer jobs lost because there were fewer to start
> with. The percentage may actually be higher than other job classifications
> because the sample set is smaller.

Hmm. My company recently let go of 2 technical writers. Not a large number,
either in absolute terms or as a percentage of overall employees. However,
it was 66.67% of the writing team.
Fiona (feeling a bit lonely).




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