In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Pablo Listingart, Founder of ComIT about why tech workers are frustrated with their work. They discuss:

• Pablo’s work training people from non-traditional backgrounds for tech jobs
• How the current layoffs by big tech companies may be giving an unduly pessimistic read on the tech sector  
• The findings of a new survey by ComIT that tallies how tech workers feel about their work and why many are willing to change jobs
• Why money is not always the main motivation for workers to change jobs and why organizations would be wise to invest in training
• Why AI may end up being neither the saviour nor the apocalypse for workers

Guest:

Pablo Listingart

Founder and Executive Director, ComIT

Pablo Listingart is the Founder and Executive Director at ComIT, a Canadian charity that helps people to overcome employment barriers. Since 2016, ComIT has been working with those less fortunate and highly talented, who are in need of a low-cost training strategy, to help them take an active role in the local workforce. 

ComIT has expanded its program nation-wide, helping over 500 people per year, offering them full access to a tailored IT education so they can take their rightful role in the Canadian economy. 

Nominated CBC Manitoba Future 40 in 2020, Pablo was featured by the Federal Government of Canada on their #ImmigrationMatters campaign where his story and work was shared to portrait the importance of immigrants in the future of the country. 

In 2021, ComIT launched along with Google Canada and the support of organizations such as Indspire, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and many others, its Recoding Futures program for Indigenous learners, reaching people across the country with an interest in pursuing a career in IT, where over 1000 people already participated in the trainings, from coast to coast to coast. 

Raised in Buenos Aires, Pablo is the youngest child of a low-mid class family and has called Canada home for 8 years. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and an MBA, and has worked in the past for IT corporations such as Microsoft and IBM.

Linda’s Take:

The tech sector is going through a transition of sorts and that is giving pause to many people who assumed that it was always going to be a source of well-paying, stable jobs. Tech is still and will continue to be an important and leading-edge industry, but my discussion with Pablo was a good reminder that all industries are now in flux and that there are no guarantees of stability for workers from any. I enjoyed Pablo’s upbeat take on things though, and appreciated hearing his views on the future of the sector as AI becomes more mainstream.

The ComIt survey on worker attitudes is in sync with everything I have observed about workers over the past few years. In all industries, people want to be heard and supported, and organizations that realize that have a huge advantage when it comes to holding on to top talent. 

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