CNET's News.com reports that a study by NimbleCat found that California is getting 29.8% of the new tech jobs. The information is based on IT jobs that were posted on job boards in June, 2005. While California may be getting most of the new tech jobs that doesn't mean things are good in the tech industry itself. CNET said that tech layoffs were occuring at twice last year's pace in the first quarter of 2005.
On the other hand, computer professionals face the threat of increased automation and the prospect of their jobs being shifted offshore. The average number of unemployed workers in nine high-tech categories fell by 64,000 last year but remained close to 150,000, according to the Labor Department. And in the first three months of this year, technology companies slashed nearly 60,000 U.S. jobs -- twice the number trimmed in the same period last year.
