The average technology worker doesn't stay with the same company for 10 years, and neither does his boss.

EarthWeb officials said they would continue to operate their business as a recruiting company for technology workers.

"They were brokers or lawyers who see the potential for technology workers, but also want to do some local service."

So why is the Clinton administration spending $28 million to remedy an alleged shortage of "information technology" workers?

But the problem extends to teachers, technology workers and scores of other industries as well.

For most technology workers then, Washington was not even on the map.

However, the same study showed that only 7 percent of technology workers actually did telecommute, and they were mostly consultants.

Many American technology workers whose jobs have not been moved offshore say that they are being offered lower salaries than in the past.

Many technology workers "can expect to make at least 20 percent less than they did during the boom," he said.

Even global supplies of technology workers are no longer as available as they once were.