The tech sector will save us all.

I said it a few months ago, and I’ll say it again, ‘The tech sector won’t be affected by the recession.’ And if recent figures are anything to go by, the tech sector is actually powering the economy to such an extent that we’re not even in a recession. Economists have been all doom and gloom in recent months, predicting contractions in GDP, but the economy grew in November, driven largely by ‘information and communications,’ according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). ‘Telecommunications and computer programming … were the largest contributors.

By George Barnes, co-founder, Hamilton Barnes.