... to low salaries, staff restrictions or a hiring freeze, a lack of qualified employees and rapidly growing technical requirements. "Companies will therefore be forced to find an alternative solution more than ever in the future," says Verena Bunk, analyst at Techconsult. "If the tasks and projects in the IT department cannot be covered by internal staff, external IT service providers will have to be brought on board." In order to get a grip on the problem of skilled workers in the future, companies are looking ...