Many of these programs contain work-life balance initiatives including flexible schedules and location. Telecommuting is a component of virtually all these initiatives. Not enough people to fill the jobs With the telecommunications boom facilitating a period of unprecedented economic prosperity, one of the byproducts has been a shortage of candidates to fill job vacancies.
Key skills are in hot demand.
Computerworld recently reported that there were 190,000 open Information Technology jobs in the United States. One-third of the job requisitions for IT positions opened in 1997 never got filled. Another industry periodical estimated that it would take 5 years of college grads just to fill current IT job openings. It's not just an IT shortage. A shortage of people with the right skills has become the major focus of senior executives in all industries.