Deb Perelman

More than 90,000 cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, were reported in 2005, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Oct. 16, one of several recent reports that have schools, day-care centers, hospitals and workplaces in a tizzy in recent weeks. A report in the Journal of […]

At a breakfast roundtable discussion at Forrester’s Forum in Nashville in May, CIOs discussed problems they had run into in their vendor relationships. One of the biggest was what one called the “bait-and-switch,” where a vendor promised them one quality of work while actually working at much lower standards. In what is being seen by […]

IT Planner : 5 Steps to Better Job Security”> In an age of cost containment, a looming economic slowdown, outsourcing, offshoring, the impending retirement of a bulk of the IT professional population, and declining enrollments in math, technology, engineering and science classes, it comes as little surprise that IT professionals are an insecure bunch. Many […]

Retention is one of those rare workplace topics that seem to resonate equally on both sides of the employment fence. Businesses that take personnel retention seriously by actively implementing policies to discourage their employees from fleeing to greener workplace pastures stand to save a lot of money because employee turnover is costly. The Department of […]

Some people argue that the golden age of software offshoring ended in 2005. Between 1995 and 2005, when the dollar was strong and the post-communist countries were felled by low wages, there was often a 5-to-1 cost advantage borne by outsourcing IT development projects. In 2007, reports of rising wages, high turnover and the fact […]

If you’re an IT manager or an experienced IT staffer, it’s a shame you’re not living in Switzerland, because according to a report released Oct. 17 by human resources consulting firm Mercer, their IT salaries tower over the rest of the world. An IT manager in Switzerland averages an annual pay of $140,960 and an […]

The generation gap has always made its presence felt at the office. The old guard inching toward retirement mixes with the “new kids” fresh out of college and several subsets in between, each walking in with their own sets of beliefs, priorities and approaches to work. But a confluence of factors, most notably an aging […]

AOL will lay off 2,000 employees, or about 20 percent of its worldwide work force, the company announced Oct. 15, as the struggling Internet/media outfit tries to realign costs. About 1,200 of the affected workers are based in the United States, with 750 from AOLs Northern Virginia offices, including Dulles, the companys longtime headquarters, according […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Technology is no idle threat to the environment. Despite their seemingly inert appearances, PCs, servers, data centers, cell phones, LANs, WANs, printers, disk storage and IT infrastructure worldwide account for an estimated 2 percent of global CO2 emissions. For all the current talk about the importance of “greening” IT for the common good, little […]

In 2006, the pop-techno musician Moby told everyone he knew that hed decided to stop using e-mail. Of course, he did this over e-mail, and being a celebrity, this e-mail eventually made it to a few entertainment news sites. All had a good laugh when he confessed that his experiment had failed a few months […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Google is often showcased as the poster child for workplace creativity and innovation, in no small part because early on—in their pre-IPO statement of intention, no less—the company declared that, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” Yet most conventional companies will never be a Google. Few have […]

Nearly a year ago, eWEEK asked 13 CIOs how they got where they were that day. Did they follow a preformed career path, climbing the IT department career ladder rung for rung? Or did they rove in and out of the IT department on their road to success? We learned that nearly half didn’t even […]