Impact Of Pandemic On IT Sector
The coronavirus pandemic had a resounding impact on It jobs in countries across the globe. Many companies entered periods of great operational-financial difficulty and others simply had to close their doors, causing thousands of layoffs. However, the virus also had a positive effect on other companies and productive sectors Soch as cyber secutrity Prodct management, Software development and many ore. The reason is that pandemic decisively promoted the digital transformation processes of many organizations, which were forced to modernize their structures and work formats to provide security and facilities for their employees.
Experts in Denovosoft Solutions explains that the pandemic managed to accelerate the digital transformation that companies were undergoing , mainly in communications, management control, sales and administration. This has meant that companies that develop applications, connections and use of information technologies have experienced significant growth in their demand.
Along the same lines, in the opinion of Experts technology and information manager,It managers, Software Developers, Cloud computing experts have got huge growth it is undeniable that the pandemic has destroyed many jobs, but in turn has generated new job opportunities , especially in companies that have adopted the technology as the way to be scalable. «There are hundreds of clear examples, but one of the most visible is in the delivery industry.and the last mile. The need for people and companies to reduce face-to-face contact for commercial transactions of products and services has led this industry to growth of over 1,000% between 2020 and 2021. In general, all companies have exponentially accelerated the speed of its digital transformation in order to survive in a pandemic world, systematizing and digitizing many of its processes that were previously mostly manual and face-to-face”, he highlights.
The proliferation of electronic commerce and the explosion of online sales is an example of how the business processes of companies have changed due to the pandemic, generating various jobs that did not exist before. The migration to a digital collection and payment policy has also altered many of the administrative processes of companies, generating the need for new skills to be able to implement and operate them.
In this context, the new remote production processes require new profiles capable of performing in a more self-taught way and with much more digital capacity. Even strategic processes within companies, such as board meetings, are done remotely and digitally, requiring a minimum of technical skills that were not necessary before. “All these changes have generated hundreds of jobs in technology and other areas, both more vacancies for existing profiles and new profiles. Developers who create and maintain the systems, UX&UI designers who conceptualize them, DevOpsand architects who create the infrastructure for all of this to work, etc. Given this scenario of constant change and a pandemic that continues, the main challenge is no longer how we create more jobs for people’s skills, but how we train people for the jobs that the market needs
In the opinion of Experts in Human Resources and creator of People Pro, the pandemic massively disrupted lives and markets, and the need to ensure the operational continuity of the world accelerated the processes of digitization, automation, and the incorporation of artificial intelligence. This pushed “many companies to operate as remotely as possible, to definitely launch into e-commerce, and thus promote the creation of new technology companies and the growth of those that managed to visualize the opportunity that this offered. The foregoing generated an explosive and inorganic increase in the labor market for existing specialists, an opportunity for students, hobbyists and for the reconversion of some professionals from other areas for different reasons towards the tech area . Globalization also drives remote work opportunities, offering the possibility of working remotely for companies in other countries
According to IDC estimates, between 2020 and 2024 it will be necessary to add 10.5 million IT professionals worldwide and, in the India context, the gap by 2022 will be 1.2 million developers. “The pandemic generated an explosive increase in the demand for talent by the technology industry since, as a consequence of the crisis, the digital transformation plans of companies accelerated in a historic way. That is why technology companies need more professionals than ever before.