Doing more with less By Trevor Eddolls Sunday, April 08, 2018 There’s been a mantra in management circles that mainframes don’t need that many staff. The heady days of the 1980s seem like a different world when a dozen operators would come to work for each shift and there were rooms full of systems programmers and application programmers working on the mainframe. And as we moved into the 1990s, sites got by with far fewer staff. You didn’t need so many operators because so much could be automated and there were very few tapes that needed to be swapped over. And in the 2000s the trend continued – fewer and fewer people. And those people that did remain are getting closer and closer to retirement age – with many having passed that age and left the business.
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