IT industry facing new normal: report

The IT industry has not remained indifferent to the impact of the Covid19 pandemic. One in three experts admits that they have experienced changes in their job offer. What’s more, nearly half of the IT workers (42 percent) have seen their pay rises and promotions grind to a halt. For some experts bonuses and incentives have already become a thing of the past – this is what seems to follow from Devire's latest report "The IT industry facing new normal". Who has gained and who has lost in 2020?

The vast majority of IT experts claim that after the COVID-19 pandemic their employment conditions remained the same (62 percent). Still, every third expert in Poland was affected by changes in the contract with the employer (38 percent) - in the level of salary, projects implemented, or the form of contract.

The main changes experienced by IT experts concern remote working and salary - 84 percent of those surveyed switched to remote working. Pay scales and promotions have been put on hold for 42 percent of respondents. Nearly one in three employees also had to take their outstanding leave. 

“Companies providing IT services to industries directly affected by the pandemic (e.g. developing software for airlines) have lost projects. In order to make it through, they were forced to implement changes in employment conditions. Most employers have introduced a remote working model, yet this is no novelty for IT experts.  Financial issues hurt the most, of course,. A large proportion of employers have suspended pay rises and planned promotions. To make matters worse, either bonuses have been brought to stop or salaries have been temporarily reduced,” Agata Miller, IT team leader in the recruitment and outsourcing company Devire, explained.

The other thing is that flexible forms of the contract are becoming increasingly popular. Still, after the outbreak of the pandemic, the willingness to change significantly decreased.

(WBJ)