5 million extra people will be working over New Year's Eve in the United States

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Heavy IT overtime expected for Y2K Wednesday, 29 December 1999 11:47 (GMT)

Subject: Heavy IT overtime expected for Y2K Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 11:48:07 AM EST Message-ID:

Heavy IT overtime expected for Y2K

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- According to estimates Wednesday from International Data Corporation's Project Magellan, close to 5 million extra people will be working over New Year's Eve in the United States, including almost 2 million in state, local, and federal government.

IDC said computer and computer service and software companies will have hundreds of thousands of employees working, as will financial organizations, transportation companies, and the health care sector.

IDC's latest forecast came from a survey completed last week of IT professionals in 10,000 organizations in 17 countries.

The staffing estimates were based on survey data on IT staffing for New Year's Eve, but include other job functions as well.

"Many companies not only have IT staff on hand," said John Gantz, IDC senior vice president, chief research officer, and team leader for Project Magellan, "but also operations, customer support, security, and even publicity staff." IDC said 72 percent of the large companies, or those with more than 500 employees, plan to have their staff on hand at midnight on New Year's Eve. Forty-three percent of medium companies and 25 percent of small companies also expect to be staffed.

In the United States 81 percent of the large companies, 51 percent of the medium sized and 35 percent of the small companies will be burning the midnight oil.

"Computer industry staffing is especially heavy," Gantz said, "with some of the big companies with tens of thousands of support people on call." --- Copyright 1999 by United Press International All rights reserved

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