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Salary survey: One in five Microsoft Dynamics professionals considering going solo

by Dann Anthony Maurno
Assistant Editor, MSDW

Why would one in five Microsoft professionals want to go solo when the Dynamics channel is rapidly changing and consolidating? Isn't there greater safety in numbers as technology and the business outlook fluctuate?

Perhaps - but with numbers come hierarchies, and advancement is harder won, those would-be freelancers have indicated.

Nigel Frank International and Dynamics-Jobs.com polled 16,237 Microsoft Dynamics specialists about their careers for their Microsoft Dynamics Salary Survey 2016. The report revealed that 21.2 percent of permanent employees are considering freelance work - that is over double last year's figure of 9.7 percent. Fully half of those dissatisfied with their current jobs cited a lack of career and promotional prospects as the main reason.

Management is to blame, it appears. One in three respondents cited poor leadership and vision as reasons for their planned defections, alongside company culture and training.

Craig Allen, Senior Executive Vice President of Nigel Frank International, helped MSDynamicsWorld delve deeper into the reasons. (Unless otherwise noted, the statistics cited are global.)

MSDW: A good many would-be freelancers cite "lack of leadership and vision" vs. "greater opportunities, more challenges." Did they provide any comments into their measures of leadership?

Craig Allen: Here are some individual comments from respondents on issues related to leadership:

  • "Owners constantly change their mind and have no backbone to keep their word"
  • "No vision at corporate leadership level"
  • "My employer crosses ethical boundaries too often"
  • "Too much politics and favours by Seniors"
  • "Culture is changing in a direction I'm not sure I like"

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About Dann Anthony Maurno

Dann Anthony Maurno is a seasoned business journalist who began his career as International Marketing Manager with Lilly Software, then moved on as a freelancer to write for such prestigious clients as CFO Magazine; Compliance Week;Manufacturing Business Technology; Decision Resources, Inc.; The Economist Intelligence Unit; and corporate clients such as Iron Mountain, Microsoft and SAP. He is the co-author of Thin Air: How Wireless Technology Supports Lean Initiatives(CRC/Productivity Press, 2010).

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