However, one sector saw an increase. The service sector employed 34% of the workforce in 1995, but by 2005 this had risen to 40% . This extremely varied sector includes the retail trade, tourist-related services such as hotels and restaurants, as well as transport,communications, finance, property, research and development,were seen in the new information and communications technologies(ICTs),which have grown rapidly since the 1990s. The developments in ICTs have had ahuge impact on jobs in all sectors, as computer technology has radically affected the way in which work is done. Themeans of production, distribution, and communication have all been transformed. The number of jobs in IT as a percentage of all jobs in the service sector is represented in figure3.