Deb Perelman

In the span of a few month, IBM has been hit with two overtime lawsuits from former employees. The first was filed July 9 and the second was filed just last week. The most recent suit, filed July 20 in the U.S. District Court for Eastern California by John Bennett, Bill Graham, and Peter Stanger […]

Whats it like to have a job where you have regular roundtable discussions with executives and have a barbeque in the backyard of the richest man in the world? Is it possible to work with a company that is so eager to invest in your ideas you feel that as big as you can dream […]

The proliferation of wireless technology has made it easier for employees across countless specialties to work from home or other remote locations. Workers who are able to take advantage of these opportunities fairly consistently report greater efficiency without in-office distractions, a better work-life balance and even more satisfaction from their jobs. Yet, telecommuting uptake rates […]

Technology and engineering unemployment is at 1.7 percent, the lowest level since 2000, and is at less than one percent for petroleum engineers (0.7 percent), architects (0.8 percent) and civil engineers (0.8 percent), according to the Tech/Engineering Staffing Growth Assessment released July 24, by the research and analysis firm Staffing Industry Analysts, located in Los […]

No Talent : Solution Providers Despair Over Job Seekers”> Ask a channel executive if its hard to get good help these days and get ready for an earful. Just when the need for qualified IT technicians is greater than ever, the talent pool is thinnest, according to channel employers and analysts. Observers attributed this to […]

Workers who have lost their jobs because the jobs were moved offshore or were lost to foreign workers might have a new chance to recover their losses through a Senate bill introduced July 23. Proposed by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, the bill seeks expansion of […]

It seems rarely a day passes that a headline doesn’t decry another Web 2.0 “lesson learned,” so to speak, from “Employee Fired for MySpace Profile” to “Workers Squandering Company Time on Message Boards.” Online communities are deemed negative, potential thieves of valuable company resources and time-wasters to be cautioned against. However, it seems unfair that […]

Do you know who is reading your e-mail? Has the fact that there is a good chance that your place of work is reading your outbound e-mail, even those that you send from your personal Web mail accounts, changed your behavior? Did you know that more than one-quarter of U.S. companies have fired an employee […]

IT professionals with SAP skills have seen their salaries mount and demand soar for two years. Salaries for SAP specializations increased 15.2 percent in 2006, according to research released in February by Foote Partners, a New Canaan, Conn., IT workforce research firm. Data from the first two quarters of 2007 suggests little abatement of this […]

Cuba’s ailing leader, Fidel Castro, issued a missive July 17 condemning the U.S. and other wealthy nations for causing Latin American “brain drain” and damaging their economies by encouraging the migration of skilled immigrants. Written on the occasion of the graduation of the first class from the Cuba’s UCI (University of Information Sciences), Castro’s essay […]

By multiple accounts, the IT job market is at its healthiest point since the dot-com bust some six years ago. Nearly 16 percent of CIOs said they intended to hire IT professionals during the first quarter of 2007, found a survey by Robert Half Technology released March 6, and a follow-up second-quarter survey found a […]

As CIOs have changed gears in the last few years from managing enterprise technology to driving business growth within their companies, the shift has also trickled down to what is demanded of the IT professionals within their organizations. Technology workers whose strengths lie in core areas of information and technology have become the most sought-after […]