DIGITAL ECONOMY

SCARCITY OF LABOR IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

This article presents a study on the digital economy in which there is a shortage of labor for professionals working with Information Technology in Brazil. In the eagerness to understand this economic and social phenomenon that presents itself as other challenges within the context of organizations that need to articulate themselves in an economy that makes use and application of new technologies not only in their internal processes, as well as making use of technology as a basis to develop new technology-based products and services to deliver to a booming market. With the advent of the pandemic caused by Covid19 in 2020, many companies and organizations migrated from analog to digital. This change implied reorganizing plans and also reorganizing the articulations of their respective businesses so that it would be possible to survive within a chaotic and unpredictable scenario that the pandemic provoked in all sectors of the economy and, consequently, in organizations. This exodus from analog to digital takes place in a context of the expansion of the information technology sector, which has seen the new digital technologies of information and knowledge emerge in all existing dimensions. Using a qualitative methodology of observation of the social phenomenon, it sought to answer nagging questions that permeate the circumscribed universe of administrators and managers, so that a better understanding of the social fact was possible, as well as understanding the new perspectives and trends regarding new digital technologies information and knowledge.