Deb Perelman

It’s not news that employees are often the enemy of IT security, from idly surfing questionable sites to downloading screen savers (“But it said it was safe!”) to more famous cases of opening misleadingly flattering e-mails. But are they network security Public Enemy Number One? A new report says just this. Employee misuse of computer […]

When a company needs to hire, they’ve got two places to look: inside their ranks or outside their organization. Human Resource experts will tell you that the first option is the favorable one, and not just because it may seem more convenient: hiring from within is seen as a huge boost to employee morale. In […]

Home Depot may not be the first company people think of when they think of organizations that aggressively recruit older workers, but that’s usually before they hear about its Snowbird program. Snowbirds, a term for Americans of retirement age who head south for the winter while living up north in the summer, aren’t exactly considered […]

Of all the reasons that Google listed when it let slip this week that it will be hiring thousands to create an European research and development team as big as the one it has in the United States, it never mentioned that hiring in the EU would allow it to dodge some of the limitations […]

WASHINGTON D.C.—Two weeks ago, EDS offered early retirement to 12,000 U.S. employees, the second time the outsourcing giant has tried to cut costs by thinning out the ranks of older employees in this manner in the past three years. Indeed, plenty of organizations figure that the easiest way to cut costs is by cutting ties […]

WASHINGTON—An education crisis looms, and if it is not addressed promptly and effectively it could undermine the prosperity of future generations of Americans. This was the message from the U.S. Chambers ICW (Institute for a Competitive Workforce) at its annual Education and Workforce Summit, Sept. 24 – 26 in Washington, D.C. The event was part […]

It’s little news that technology is predominantly a male environment. Blame for the imbalance is typically placed on a low amount of natural interest by women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, with the actual experience of women who work in technology being a less frequently investigated possibility. Speaking at a lecture hosted […]

Technology executives once again dominate Forbes’ list of the richest Americans, with half of the top ten coming in as tech-made billionaires. While Microsoft top dog Bill Gates held down his No. 1 slot, with $59 billion and counting as he prepares to give up day-to-day involvement in his company to spend time on his […]

If you thought it was hard enough to compete with a bunch of 20-something geek brainiacs in a garage in Menlo Park, California, you probably don’t want to hear about Arjun Mehta, a sixth grader who started the company PlaySpan last year in his parent’s garage in Santa Clara. Yet what he’s done is enough […]

Fourteen percent of CIOs said theyll be hiring and two percent of CIOs expected to be making job cuts in the fourth quarter of 2007, finds a survey issued Sept. 11 by Robert Half Technology, an IT recruiting firm. The net 12 percent hiring increase compares favorably with net increases of 15 percent projected in […]

Whats the workday like for a database administrator? Well, that depends on whether you want the long answer or the short one. The long one seems to go on for miles: Installing, upgrading, capacity planning, tuning, fixing application performances and recovering documents are just the beginning of it, and that doesnt include firefighting their way […]

As if getting laid off weren’t dehumanizing enough, 10 percent of U.S. employees say that their company has used e-mail to fire or lay off employees. In the workplace equivalent of getting dumped over the phone, 17 percent said their bosses had used e-mail to avoid difficult face-to-face interactions. These were the findings of a […]