Deb Perelman

As if on cue from Google, a company with such a widely-praised employee bus service, the New York Times wrote a beaming article about it in March, Microsoft announced Sept. 7 that it would be launching a free express bus service for employees to and from its Redmond headquarters later this month. The Wi-Fi enabled […]

Days after announcing his Sept. 30 resignation, news spread that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was reconsidering his decision after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting, and may still fight for his Senate seat. “It’s not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign,” Sidney Smith, Craig’s spokesman […]

The last several bits of H-1B news that have trickled across the wire have seemed, at least on the surface, to be good things for IT professionals. In late June, the immigration bill went up in flames, taking with it a provision to raise the set cap on the skilled worker visas. A few days […]

Though bad news was slightly offset by an increase in expected hiring, the outlook for IT professionals on their job market and personal finances slipped noticeably in August, according to Hudsons Employment Index released Sept. 5. The dive of 7.6 points to 105.1 in August came over a four-month period of sliding confidence, from a […]

As part of an update to its college information and application site, Microsoft announced today via its JobsBlog that it has created “an AWESOME interactive site to go along with it” titled “Hey Genius.” Using terms like “hip,” “hidden gems” and “cool,” not once but twice, the site unabashedly aspires to get Microsoft in with […]

That workers often feel stressed and harried while on the job is nothing new. Mounting workloads, hurried paces and at times colliding demands on employees times are typical expectations of the workplace today. However, IT workers claim they have it worse, reporting that they are in a constant state of “running races to keep up” […]

Will you be at work today until 5 p.m. or beyond while all of your buddies are already at the bar or on the road to the shore, their holiday weekends in progress while you’ve got hours of the grind to go? Do you dream of working at a company that lets you take as […]

Though it has come a long way from the gloom-and-doom days of the dot-com bust, the state of the IT workplace isnt shiny and happy. If you ask an IT pro what they think of their chosen career path, a surprising number might pause before giving you a litany of reasons that the technology workplace […]

In the job hunting world, there are two peak seasons yearly in which most disenchanted workers set their marks and get set to go. The first is in early January, on the heels of New Years resolutions by bored workers across the land promising themselves theyll find more inspiring work that year. The second is […]

Among the range of projects, hacks, tricks and life tips on Wired.com’s new collaborative site, IT support makes the list of critical coworkers worth “sucking up to.” Having these people on your side will make your life easier, the post reads; creating an enemy of them can make your life miserable. Of course, the reasoning […]

If employees in your organization are so familiar with the ‘Please Continue to Hold’ help desk hold music they’re starting to make special requests, it should come as no surprise to you that CIOs agree that IT could use more support. In fact, IT help desks are not just understaffed, but significantly so: 1,400 CIOs […]

As part of a series of back-to-school and back-to-the-daily-grind articles, eWEEK editors want know what the most important thing you learned in school was–that is, the thing that you have been able to apply in countless ways, or keep coming back to, at work everyday. For some, it might be some core time management skills. […]