Factors influencing business data processors turnover - a comparative case history

Historically computer personnel have had the reputation of working for the profession and not the company. In this relatively new field the data processor has enjoyed a mobility of job opportunities between industries that just does not exist in most other professions. This tool “the computer” is being used more and more extensively in diverse applications as manpower and related costs increase and the computer power costs decrease. The practitioners within the computer field then find themselves in the enviable position of the demand usually exceeding the supply in a very wide variety of scientific, academic, industrial, governmental and professional arenas. This is well and good for the computer professional but it has a profound adverse effect upon the various employers that must contend with this turnover.