An anonymous reader writes "I was recently talking to a friend about the Fortune 100 company she works for in IT. She told me the company has 35,000 employees, including over 5,000 IT employees — and it's not a web firm. It has numerous consultants doing IT work as well. To me, from a background where my last job had 50 IT employees and 1,000 total, a 1-in-7 ratio of IT employees seems extremely high. Yet she mentioned even simple changes to systems/software take over six months. So, what ratio does your company have, and what is reasonable? How much does this differ by industry?" I'd be interested to see how much it differs by OS platform as well.
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A lot less than that... & lesser all the time, especially since "times are hard in the land of plenty" in the USA especially - & going to get worse: IT dept. budgetary predictions are cuts across the boards (in addition to outsourcing these jobs in 2009).

My views/take on it, after having been in this field for 16++ yrs.? See here, for specifics:

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...7&cid=24720815

... &, those of you actually IN this field/art & science? I hope you feel the same, because change doesn't happen, until tons of damage gets done (look around the nation & even the state of this field itself lately @ times) unfortunately BUT, more importantly, until folks speak out & share ideas on it, together... making change, happen.

APK