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The Help Ticket of Shame
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2008-01-18
Ever have the help ticket that will not go away? Can you imagine it coming back to haunt you 10 years later?
Microsoft can probably tell you all about it because in a story that will probably be coming back to haunt them for at least another 10 years, a blogger
Part-Time Work Not a Long-Term Solution
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2008-01-07
New Labor Department data finds that as companies made efforts to cut costs but sidestep rounds of layoffs, there was an eight percent increase in the number of companies reducing many of their employees' hours in 2007.
Though analysts say that this isn't yet happening in the bulk of IT
Q&A: What Would Another Recession Mean for IT?
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-12-13
The IT work force is still scarred from the dot-com bust of 2001, with some technology pros feeling like they never got back on their feet. Even more ended up leaving the field. Fears that another round of downsizing and layoffs are imminent have technology workers on edge again, just
IT Project Failures Set Fingers Pointing
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-12-11
IT project managers seem to suffer from a case of low expectations, in which their projects consistently fail to meet the goals set out for them.
This is for good reason, as one in three IT projects fail to perform to expectations, finds a survey released Dec. 11 by Tata
Documentary to Tell of the 6 'Granny Hackers'
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-12-06
Sixty years ago, six women became some of the earliest computer hackers in history. A new documentary hopes to give them their credit due.
In the half-century since Rosie the Riveter became the culture icon not just for women who had worked in manufacturing plants while men were off fighting World
MIT Frees Up Learning
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-12-05
MIT just got a whole lot less exclusive.
MIT celebrated a milestone Nov. 28 in its efforts to open its course content to the public--the core teaching materials, including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and
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U.S. Students Rank Lower Than Ever in Science and Math
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-12-04
Comparing the scores of 15-year-old students in the United States to their international peers, the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) report results, released Dec. 4,
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Keyword Spam Newest Resume Faux Pas
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-30
Application Tracking Systems have been widely used in recruiting for years, allowing recruiters to throw a resume into a database and search against it via keywords. The only time most recruiters see resumes in full is when it shows up in a search. A resume that is speckled with keywords
NIH, Fannie Mae Asked to Explain High H-1B Use
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-29
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), long an advocate of transparency in the H-1B program, has found a new target: the Federal government.
Grassley has fired off two letters to two federal
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Few Data Center Jobs Coming to Siberia (Phew)
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-27
As it battles competitors such as Google and Yahoo for Web-bases services, Microsoft has continually expanded its Internet infrastructure through the construction of data centers around the
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Life After Microsoft for Fired CIO
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-26
Just over two weeks after being canned from Microsoft, the software giant's former CIO has found himself a new job with a more impressive title: Chief Operating Officer at a wholesale mortgage lender in
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Cyber Monday's Productivity Loss Is Questionable
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-21
How bad of an impact will slacking employees engaging in online shopping over the holiday season have on workplaces? It depends on whom you ask.
Some estimates are near a half-billion
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Who Gets Friday Off? Probably Not You
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-19
For the first time in over three decades, New Jersey will be open for business on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and that noise you hear is the sum of five million groans, or the entire employed population of the Garden State.
In reopening for business on Black Friday, as the
What if Offices Were Designed Like Hotels?
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-16
What's not to love about a hotel? You walk into an expansive lobby, often awash in sunlight from the skylight above, furniture is arranged in informal clusters across the arena-like space, some more secluded in a corner, others right in the middle of the buzz. People are everywhere and there
Top IT Certs Will Be Less Microsoft-Centric
By Deb Perelman | Posted: 2007-11-13
What will be the hottest IT certifications in 2008? According to Michael Trapp at knowhow-now.com, they won't be as Microsoft-centric as they were in previous years. Basing his list on "job growth, sales of certification training material and a little guess work," Trapp argues that any of the listed
