Deb Perelman

By the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own count, women hold 27 percent, just over a quarter, of jobs in computer-related and mathematical occupations. As a result of IT’s numerical dominance by men, it has long been viewed as unreceptive to women. Even among women working in technology, dissatisfaction and disenchantment is high. By many accounts, […]

Less than a week after laying off 1,000 employees, Yahoo is doing what it can to keep its remaining work force from fleeing for greener–or perhaps Googler–pastures, by instituting retention bonuses and souped-up severance packages, in the event that they don’t want to work for Yahoo’s new landlords. So, exactly how sweet are the severance […]

Last October, AOL laid off 20 percent of its workforce. A large number of these jobs were cut from its Northern Virginia headquarters, where headcount was shrunk from 5,700 to 3,000 employees. According to an article in the Washington Post Feb. 18, the area’s tech industry–largely built up around AOL in its 1990’s heyday–is struggling […]

After pushing 1,000 workers out to the door to better make ends meet, Yahoo is beefing up relations with its remaining employees. The struggling search giant has made plans to offer all of its employees enhanced severance benefits in the event that they are laid off in a changing of the guards.In a Feb. 15 […]

The struggling Yahoo laid off 1,000 workers this week. Gone are its vice president of marketing, senior manager of integrated campaign strategy and vice president of content and programming. A few search marketing executives, at least two senior directors, a news general manager and 900 other employees whose jobs came with less newsworthy titles are […]

Nearly by default, once a job-seeker gets their resume tuned up and cleared of embarrassing gaffes, the next place they go is to one of the big job boards to get it out there. But where do they start? Are their some boards that have a better return on investment than others? Such statistics are […]

From the banking industry to MySpace, unstructured digital information is growing at an astronomical pace. A recent IDC study projected a sixfold growth in worldwide information between 2006 and 2010, from 161 exabytes in 2006 to more than 988 exabytes in 2010. All of this data requires storage, and enterprises are struggling to find ways […]

By now, it would be hard to have missed the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials. The commercials feature a young, hip-looking, casually dressed guy meant to characterize the Mac persona, and a formalistic, stuffy, work-obsessed guy representing PC users. They certainly didn’t fall under the radar of Microsoft employees. “Those ads tapped into […]

The ax fell on some 1,000 Yahoo employees Feb. 13, after months of speculation and rumor mongering from tech watchdog news sources. Hopes that a hostile bid from Microsoft would save Yahoo jobs were dashed as Yahoo rejected the buyout offer Feb. 11 as “substantially undervaluing” the search giant. Yahoo would not say which departments […]

Enterprise demand for IT professionals capable of working in the Web 2.0 world is growing as more and more firms call upon this technology to address problems facing their information systems. To date, most IT departments have resisted Web 2.0 tools, viewing them as consumer grade and of secondary interest to their other investments. But […]

Reviving a crashed server until the wee hours of the morning! Encrypting CDs! Fending off spammers, hackers and other villains with a single patch! Though the work of IT professionals may seem no match in excitement or power of comic superheroes, Microsoft and Seagate thinks it should be. Together, they have sponsored a daily Web […]

Yesterday, we got a peek at how Ballmer was keeping the Microsoft troops calm in the midst of the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations. In a leaked email, Microsoft’s CEO lays out the rationale for the bid, gives credit to the work Microsoft employees have already done in the space and even promises a soft landing for incoming […]