Re: "Are technical writers the unsung heroes of document generation?"

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

From what I can see, looking at things 15 years after the dotcom bubble 
popped the long term impact has been a big nothing either way. 
Environments where tech writers regularly work a lot of overtime pretty 
much died along with Pets.com and WebVan, and most companies that hire 
tech writers continued to manage them as casually or rigidly as they did 
before, there was never a wave of employers making writers punch clocks 
or docking them if they took an occasional couple of hours off to go to 
the dentist, nor was there a mass shift of opportunities between CA and 
other states in either direction.

So I would conclude that except for one splashy case involving Sun 
Microsystems, the law ended up "protecting" a relatively small portion 
of the overall technical communications profession from a situation that 
just doesn't happen very much anymore.

Gene Kim-Eng
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