The temperature at which companies feel at home is still cold while the software industry has been attracting attention as a "groomer" in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. Although government and corporations are looking for investment, they do not lead to a full-scale increase in the SW market, and even the size of their business is low and profitability is low. Although the government calls for `innovation growth` and `job creation`, it is pointed out that even the representative industries of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are far different from policy slogans and reality.

Analysis of business reports of major IT services and SW companies announced on DART on April 9 revealed that the number of recruiting personnel of major companies decreased in the past year. The number of employees of LG CNS, which was 5869 in 2016, decreased by 555 to 5314 as of the end of last year. The company explained that the financial automation division, which carries out ATM-related business, was split last year and the result was a natural decrease in employees due to retirement. However, more than 100 people were left behind, excepting about 400 people in the divisions.

LG CNS representative said, "The division of the ATM business has reduced the size of the workforce," he said. The company has had more than 6,000 employees since 2010 and over 7,000 in 2013.

Ssangyong Information & Communications, the No. 1 company in the domestic system integration (SI) industry, has reduced its staff size from 512 to 398, which is the fourth consecutive year. Ssangyong, a strong leader in the defense and sports sectors, suffered a huge loss in its low-profit business and pulled out the hard work of reducing the number of employees.

After the restriction of participation in large companies, iTechen, which took the top place in the public SW ordering market and boasted as a mid-sized company, succeeded in turning profitable through the efficiency of its business structure last year. However, the number of employees decreased from 648 to 475. The company is receiving unprecedented attention to improving profits through cuts. In particular, it is expected that the fate of public works will be cut off in the second half of the year due to the final judgment of the dismissal of the illegal person in the Public Procurement Service and the Supreme Court. The number of employees has decreased by 80 from 12,338 to 12,558 last year. A representative from Samsung SDS said, "We are expanding new businesses in the platform sector such as logistics, block chains, and big data, and we are increasing new recruitment." It reflected the declining nature due to retirement and turnover last year. " SK Corp.`s C & C (97), POSCO ICT (240), Daewoo Information System (33) and Duzon Bizon (201) increased their work force due to new business expansion, expansion of sales network and project increase. The number of recruiting companies, including Bitcomputer (2 persons), Hyundai Information Technology (33 persons), Hancom (21 people), Miracom I & C (12 people), Posys (10 people) There was no change in the.

An expert from the SW industry said, "The government is demanding job creation, but the industry still does not feel well, so the job market is not warming." With market volatility and difficulty forecasting the future, "Even if we win a project, we tend to keep our existing workforce as flexible as possible, rather than increasing recruitment."

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