"For us, the biggest return we get is that the piece of software we wrote is helpful in someone's everyday job function," says Swider of Penn Plastic. "We can see what they're getting out of our efforts."
And surprisingly, most respondents (60 percent) got a raise this year.
Among the other job-related findings from our survey:
Respondents remain split on whether the IT department gets the professional respect it deserves. Some 56 percent said yes, and 44 percent said no. Last year the split was 52 to 44.
Asked to characterize the degree of interaction between their companies' application and network operations groups, 54 percent say they interact regularly, 14 percent say individuals are assigned to that task, and 10 percent say the two groups almost never interact. Some 22 percent say their companies make no such distinction between groups.
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