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Young IT workers disillusioned, hard to hold, survey says

Denise Dubie By Denise Dubie
As IT managers work to hire and retain IT talent, they report running into issues meeting the work expectations of young Millennial generation employees, says Atlantic Associates, an IT staffing company. Read full story

Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers the technologies, products and services that address network, systems, application and IT service management for Network World. E-mail Denise.

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