Deb Perelman

Though tales of ever-expanding compensation packages for executives and claims that companies have shifted their focus from hiring to retention continue to fill business news coverage, a study suggests that this has had little effect on the contentment of C-level employees. Executive job satisfaction levels are surprisingly low as companies struggle to keep their management […]

Certain you’ll never make it in the Big Apple? Think again. In a recent issue, Forbes Magazine ranks New York as the No. 1 city for young professionals. Though this is far from surprising–many of America’s best companies, from Goldman Sachs to News Corp., make the island of Manhattan their home–great companies alone don’t make […]

What does it take for a country to support a thriving IT sector? The United Sates, Japan, South Korea and the UK have all done a good job of figuring it out. These countries stood out among the 64 nations reviewed in the IT Competitiveness Index, a benchmarking report conducted by the EIU (Economist Intelligence […]

Fed up with U.S. immigration hurdles, Microsoft announced July 5 plans to open a software development center in Vancouver, British Columbia, that it hopes will “be home to software developers from around the world.” Employing as many as 900 workers within a couple years, the facility, to be called the Microsoft Canada Development Centre, is […]

Employment in Canada is humming and payrolls in the IT sector are growing, helping to make Canada an attractive target for IT skills. Employment in Canada grew 3.2 percent between 2003 and 2005 (the most recent years for which data is available), outpacing the United States, where employment rose 2.9 percent in the same period. […]

After getting caught in the crossfire between the two federal bodies that control the immigration system—the State Department and the Citizenship and Immigration Service—the American Immigration Lawyers Association threatened June 5 to bring a class action lawsuit against the U.S. immigration agencies. The cause of the furor dates back to June 13, when the State […]

What will be the next big offshoring frontier? While the experts dont all have the same locations in mind, they all agree that it will no longer be in India. Salary inflation is largely to blame for the change in course. When the outsourcing boom took off in 2004, the salaries of software engineers were […]

India’s outsourcing boom has largely been powered by Silicon Valley, which has shifted great sums of IT and engineering jobs in Bangalore’s direction for the last several years. When the outsourcing boom took off in 2004, the salaries of software engineers were but one quarter of what San Francisco-area computer engineers made, evidencing the clear […]

Reservations about finances, hiring and job security mounted in June, driving IT worker confidence to its lowest point in four months, according to the latest poll on the subject. Twenty-five percent of IT workers are worried about job security and a mere 52 percent said their finances were in good shape, found the Hudson Employment […]

Every year Popular Science magazine publishes The Worst Jobs in Science, a “bottom-10 list” saluting the “men and women who do what no salary can adequately reward.” Published in the June issue, the 2007 list had its share of groan-inducing jobs, including Whale-Feces Researcher, a title that really should defy commentary, but I will say […]

It may come as a surprise to many executives, but workers arent leaving their jobs just because they are not happy with their pay, according to the experts. Unless the gap between what an individual is making and the market valuation of their role is particularly wide, a higher salary might be the perk that […]

The U.S. Senate voted June 28 against advancing a controversial immigration reform bill, effectively killing the closely watched legislation and dashing the hopes of IT employers whod hoped for an increase in the number of H-1B work visas this year. The bill, which President Bush called his top domestic priority for 2007, was effectively blocked […]