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The 2021 software developer shortage is coming

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Companies must address the difficulty of hiring and retaining high-skilled employees from an increasingly smaller labor supply.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 7
      July 2021
      99 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3472147
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