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Jaya
Jagannath,
During childhood we all
have learnt the rain cycle some where in our school books. How water
evaporates from drains, pools, rivers and seas, condenses to form
cloud, cloud rains and we get fresh chilling pure water again. Well
today let's learn the lay off cycle.
Heat out of several
factors makes few employees evaporate from IT world ( a process
similar to water evaporation ), they spend some time brushing up
their skills and regaining their technical vigor and energy( a
process similar to condensation ), comes back again fresh and with a
lesson learnt to IT world like rain.
Well the only difference
here is "Lay off" is a alarming issue among Indian IT professionals.
Let's see why it happens and how to prevent it from happening again.
Why Lay off happens :
1. Be cause we ask much
more than we deserve.
People having more than 3
years experience always demand package more than double of their
experience. If we ask our selves "Will we pay the same as we get to
some one we employee for doing the work that we do", Honestly the
answer will be "NO". Thus people with 3 till 8 years of experience
are considered costlier to their worth. Becomes first target during
cost cutting.
2. Effective productive
hour.
Most alarming issue for
Indian IT professionals. A survey says Effective productive hour of
Indian IT professionals is just 3 hours out of 8 hours, compared to
Japan 7/8, China 6/8, US 4/8, Malaysia 5/8. Now of course the
pointer swings to eastern hemisphere towards Malaysia, Singapore and
Hong Kong. In their local job advertisements it's being clearly
mentioned that any one is eligible to apply except Indians.
3. Due to fall of Dollar
value.
Of course due to Indian
economy rise, Rupees rises against dollars and Americans are getting
more unemployed then their Indian counter parts. They have started
feeling as Indians are snatching their bread.
4. To replace middle
tier employees with fresher.
Now a days In most of the
software companies you will find mostly 0 to 3 years experienced
people only work the most and gets paid least. They are the hard
workers. Then the ones from 3 till 8 years experienced, who although
strategically handle the team, but work smartly and produce quality
deliverables but comparatively spend less time in front of PC.
Management thinks otherwise and feels that if the same work can be
done by a fresher then why to keep an experienced one paying more
than 5 times. Thus they replace middle tier employees with fresher
either ignoring or unknowing the future risks.
5. Eastern hemisphere is
better than us.
US and European clients
have started switching to eastern countries like Malaysia, Singapore
Hong Kong, Mayanmar, Bangladesh. Reason may be to prevent India grow
and till their shoulder or to help their economy bloom.
6. Cost cutting on
maintenance projects.
Management in many
companies do this just to trim the team and show lesser investment
and high productivity.
How to prevent lay offs :
1. Diversifying our skill
set. Keep your skill set tuned every day. Add a new skill set per
month.
2. Honest and disciplined
to work, Let the company feel your importance not either.
3. Always be innovative
and do more than you are supposed to. Always add value to
productivity.
4. Always maintain a hot
collection of email ids of all consultants and HRs those are on
recruitment spree. You never know when you need them.
5. Let's regularly scan
the market feasibility and scope of our profile. This will trigger
you guide your self improve our skills regularly
6. In IT eco system, let's
help all every time regularly and get helped in return as and when
needed
7. Let's all provide
faultless and all correct information while joining a company and
leave no clue with employers to find a reason to lay any one off.
Hope this some how
en-lights our awareness against possible career threats in IT
profession. Believe me a true faith in GOD will protect us from all
such calamities. Honestly we pray just once to Lord Sri Jagannath,
He will be always be behind us, blessing us with much more than we
would have asked for. Jaya Jagannath.
Regards
Nilachakra
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