There are rumors about cutting people in the IT department - please note that we are very conservative when bringing people on board and that the headcount is flexible. We had a ton of contractors and most of them are gone by now, I'd say about 30% to 40% of the overall people count (employees plus contractors plus consultants) is gone already. In my estimate about 50% of the entire IT group were contractors - nowadays I think we kept a very small number of them.
Also, hiring is non existant right now - so overall things are bleak but not as bad as they can be (for the employees)