"The Future is Looking Brighter"
Based on more than 300 responses to the March 2002 Tech Barometer,
employment levels, sales, and profits in the tech economy will be
improving in the coming months. Although levels for all three
surveyed metrics indicate strong growth ahead, the greatest positive
change is expected to be in the number of new employees.
On the question of regional support for a referendum on increasing the
sales tax, respondents were almost evenly split on whether to support a
referendum that increased sales taxes to benefit public education versus
no tax increase at all.
Nearly 96% of the respondents to the Council's response poll were from
the Greater Richmond area, and they evenly represented companies with
small, medium and large numbers of employees. 57% of responses were from
technology producers or service providers, 17% were from tech employees
of non-tech companies, the remaining 26% come from education,
government, associations, and non-technology organizations or
businesses. See survey data below.
