IT employment grows, but barely

The U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that no new net jobs across all industries were added in August, but IT hiring may have fared a little better.

The government said the information industry saw an employment decline in August of 48,000 workers, but most of that decline, 45,000 workers, was the result of a strike by Verizon workers last month.

That prompted the TechServe Alliance, an industry group that represents IT services companies, to offer two versions of its monthly analysis of IT hiring. If the 45,000 striking telecommunications workers are calculated back into the government's IT employment total, then IT employment overall increased from the prior month by .05 percent or 2,100. Read more...