PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD
PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD Recent months have seen massive increases in jobs requiring cloud-computing skills. Now a new report from the London School of Economics predicts that cloud computing will continue to create jobs.
The study analyzed the effect of cloud computing on two key industries—smartphone and the aerospace—from 2010-2014. These two industries were chosen because of their variance; while the smartphone field is fast-growing and relatively new, aerospace is decades-old and grows slowly. Researchers focused on countries leading in cloud computing, such as the United States, England, and Germany.
In both the slow and fast-growing industries, investments in cloud computing led to job growth and creation. The construction, staffing, and supply of data centers were directly correlated with job creation.
The study also showed that the risk of unemployment from investing in cloud computing is quite low. In addition to hiring new staff, companies are likely to retrain current employees.
According to the study, the effect of the cloud depends largely on what industry is involved. Web-centric industries like smartphones were more influenced by cloud migrations than industries like manufacturing.
"Cloud computing and the explosion in access to technology is impacting the character of work across industries, generating new skills demands, employment and growth opportunities," said John Vassallo, Vice President EU Affairs at Microsoft, who commissioned the study, according to a statement. “LSE’s study underscores these phenomena using rigorous economic analysis that forecasts growth as a result of the transition to cloud technologies in two major industrial sectors - aerospace and smart phones. The findings highlight that Europe has real opportunity to capture the Cloud’s potential, with particular benefit to SME’s as well as new business creation through emerging Cloud services.”
For the United States, the LSE study predicts a 168 percent increase in cloud-related jobs in the smartphone industry from 2010 to 2014. In total, the study forecasts 54,500 new cloud-related jobs in the U.S. by 2014. The U.S. leads in job creation, according to the study, in part because of lower labor and electricity costs.
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