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Recent research from Gartner shows that 55% of CIOs plan to increase their total number of full-time employees in IT across the course of 2021. The new positions will be focused on growth in the areas like automation, cloud and analytics platforms, and support for remote work. The findings are contained in the 2021 Gartner CIO Talent Planning Survey (
subscription required), which was conducted between November 2020 and December 2020 among 184 CIOs in North America, EMEA and APAC across differing industries, functions and company sizes. âThe critical role IT played across most firmsâ response to the pandemic appears to have had a positive impact on IT staffing plans,â said Matthew Charlet, research vice president at Gartner, in a statement.