Investigation Into Legal And Ethical Aspects Of The IT Industry

Introduction. Pestle Analysis of Website Development Industry. Political Factors. Economic Factors. Sociological Factors. Technological Factors. Legal Factors. Environmental Factors. Swot analysis. Legal and Ethical Aspects of the Website Development Industry. Ethical Aspects in the Web Development. References.

The Website Development Industry includes careers that design and develop websites, graphic design, interface design and it also provides search engine optimization & code writing. “Industry revenue is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 1.7% over the five years through 2020-21 to reach £548.9 million, due to favourable demand conditions for the majority of the period”. (IBISWorld - Industry Market Research, Reports, and Statistics, 2020). These numbers prove that despite the recent economic slowdown the web development industry is growing. The current global trend is to be presented on the Internet -including small or large businesses, organizations, universities, government agencies or enterprises etc.

This report will focus on the Website Development career, based on SWOT and PESTLE analysis and will look into legal & ethical aspects of the industry.

PESTLE analysis helps to investigate the impact of the six factors on the industry. This analysis will look through at all of those factors.

Brexit effects on the industry: According to BBConsult.co.uk the UK has hired a lot of talents from EU countries in this industry -“Unfortunately, there’s a very real chance it won’t be quite as readily available beyond this country’s exit from the EU.” (Chima, 2020).