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The Complexities of High-Tech Layoffs

Posted May 2, 2001 | Leadership |

By now, there's hardly a soul anywhere in the world who hasn't heard about the dot-com collapse and the resultant layoff of dot-com whiz kids. But the ripple-effect consequences of that phenomenon are getting more and more complex, and I'm beginning to think that we may be dealing with the aftereffects for months, if not years, to come.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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