# (off-topic) The recession and you: has the economy changed your IT spending?

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**Created:** [July 29, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-the-recession-and-you-has-the-economy-changed-your-it-spending/172859 "2009-07-29T03:32:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/off-topic-the-recession-and-you-has-the-economy-changed-your-it-spending/172859/1 "2009-07-29T03:32:42Z")

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If you can spare about 10 minutes to take a survey I would love to  
hear about how the global recession is (or is not) changing your  
personal or organizational IT plans.

[http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Co3CDMHC47\_2fTCyYvGNSa\_2fA\_3d\_3d&c=88](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Co3CDMHC47_2fTCyYvGNSa_2fA_3d_3d&c=88)

This is part of a study I am conducting for my own blog  
([www.surkan.com](http://www.surkan.com)), and I will be making the results freely available in  
the coming weeks. I am doing this as part of my own private research  
effort, and it isn’t being done on the behalf of any corporations or  
clients. This subject (i.e. how the economy impacts IT trends) is  
something that has fascinated me for years while I was employed as a  
market researcher at Microsoft, and now that I am no longer with the  
firm I am free to really explore the subject.

I don’t have any fancy prizes, or incentives, to offer you for taking  
the survey (i.e. I don’t have any kind of research budget), but I can  
promise the reward that comes from helping your fellow man, and making  
the world a better place.

Ok, that’s a little over the top… But your contribution (through  
answering the survey questions) will go towards helping the tech  
industry understand how to better meet your needs in a changed world.  
If nothing else, the results of this study should prove to be an  
interesting read for anyone. 🙂

Thanks,  
Michael Surkan

P.S. This survey is designed so that people who say they have an IT  
related job will be shown enterprise-type questions. Everyone else  
will see questions about technology spending in the home. You are free  
to take the survey twice if you are particularly ambitious, answering  
both the enterprise and consumer IT sections.