The excessive overtime leads to fatigue and then more overtime to fix mistakes resulting from fatigue. Hiring new workers might not make sense if they have to let them go after the current hot project is done. Every time you lay off folks at your firm the unemployment insurance taxes go up, this is to punish businesses that repeatedly hire and fire folks. On the other hand if you subcontract out the work you avoid the unemployment insurance and a lot of other taxes and liabilities but clients spending huge sums of money on a product that has to last several years will probably not like the idea that their buildings are mostly or in-part are being designed by subcontractors.
I also suspect that firms are going to hire their way into the latest technology upgrades instead of spending their profits to train their employees hence the demand for technology gurus in REVIT and every other software you can shake a stick at.
Are firms looking for architects who know software technology or software technicians who know architecture?
Robert Ivy the editor of architectural record is speaking at U of I Urbana Champaign Illinois. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place he is editor of a print magazine about architecture a severely distressed profession and the largest architectural professional organization in the world the AIA has dropped their subscription effective next year. Will Mr. Ivy soon be amongst the unemployed? If you are interested it is 5:30 pm Wednesday November 3rd at the graduate studio building TBH in Urbana IL http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/events/lectures/fa2010/11_03_10_Ivy/
Unemployed need not apply
The excessive overtime leads to fatigue and then more overtime to fix mistakes resulting from fatigue. Hiring new workers might not make sense if they have to let them go after the current hot project is done. Every time you lay off folks at your firm the unemployment insurance taxes go up, this is to punish businesses that repeatedly hire and fire folks. On the other hand if you subcontract out the work you avoid the unemployment insurance and a lot of other taxes and liabilities but clients spending huge sums of money on a product that has to last several years will probably not like the idea that their buildings are mostly or in-part are being designed by subcontractors.
I also suspect that firms are going to hire their way into the latest technology upgrades instead of spending their profits to train their employees hence the demand for technology gurus in REVIT and every other software you can shake a stick at.
Are firms looking for architects who know software technology or software technicians who know architecture?
Jeeeeezus. 70-90 workweeks? Maybe unemployment ain't so bad!
Robert Ivy the editor of architectural record is speaking at U of I Urbana Champaign Illinois. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place he is editor of a print magazine about architecture a severely distressed profession and the largest architectural professional organization in the world the AIA has dropped their subscription effective next year. Will Mr. Ivy soon be amongst the unemployed? If you are interested it is 5:30 pm Wednesday November 3rd at the graduate studio building TBH in Urbana IL
http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/events/lectures/fa2010/11_03_10_Ivy/
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