Software development companies must consider employees' job satisfaction and turnover intentions. To explain the related factors, this study focused on future perspective index (FPI). FPI was assumed to relate positively to satisfaction and negatively to turnover. In the analysis, we compared the FPI with existing factors that are considered to be related to job satisfaction. We discovered that the FPI was promising for enhancing explanatory power, particularly when analyzing satisfaction.

Much has been said and written about the changes in analog IC technology such as shrinking line widths, vanishingly low supply voltages, severe power limitations, and digital noise. But beyond these technology changes and their subsequent methodology changes, a far more subtle revolution is happening in the nature of the profession itself. Technology, software, and product evolution have all conspired to create a new kind of analog IC designer, one very different from the IC designers of the past.