Deb Perelman

There is no shortage of conversations across human resources, workplace and talent management publications focused on the difficulties of hiring and retaining the most competitive workers, but few have warned of the consequences as sharply and clearly as a report issued by Watson Wyatt, a global consulting firm, on Feb.14: If you overlook the importance […]

Though health care cost continued its eight-year reign at the top of the annual agendas of employers, employee retention edged up to the second spot, as well as retirement benefits, according to a survey released Feb. 15 by New York-based Deloitte Consulting and the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, a nonprofit educational association. […]

Just in time for a day of romance and chivalry, a study released Feb. 14 by researchers at the University of Arizona and the Clorox Co. advises men to forget the flowers and chocolates on Valentine’s Day and instead “buy her disinfectant.” Yes, they actually went “there.” According to the results of this study, bacteria […]

Pay for non-certified IT skills grew 8 percent in 2006, while pay for certified skills showed flat growth, according to the most recent edition of the Hot Technical Skills and Certification Pay Index released Feb. 12 by New Canaan, Conn., IT workforce research firm Foote Partners. “Though there was an increase in certified pay in […]

Nearly four in 10 workers would consider dating a co-worker, the same number have actually done so and one-quarter of these romances have led to marriage, finds a survey released by Spherion, a recruiting and staffing firm, on Jan. 29. “The results of this survey confirm what we know intuitively—that many workers find opportunities for […]

While the loss of service jobs to offshoring in the near future will be modest, metropolitan areas with large concentrations of IT and back-office jobs will be harder hit, finds a report released Feb. 12 by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based independent research group. Noting that public fervor and coverage of offshoring has noticeably died […]

The CEO-CIO relationship has been characterized as everything from an enormously uncomfortable marriage to square pegs versus round holes to irreconcilable differences. Although making light banter about these notoriously touchy relationships is guaranteed to get everyone to crack a smile while sitting around a boardroom table, like most jokes, theyre funny because theyre somewhat true. […]

U.S. policies to ensure decent working conditions for families still lag behind those of other high-income countries, according to a new study by McGill Universitys Institute for Health and Social Policy. In studying 173 countries, IHSP Director Dr. Jody Heymann found that 168 (97 percent) guarantee paid maternal leave, with 98 (57 percent) of them […]

Early 2007 showed a significant slowdown in the turnover of C-level, or highest-level, executives compared to 2006, according to a report issued on Feb. 6 by Liberum, a New York-based management research firm. Executive level turnover declined 16 percent in January 2007, compared to 12 months ago. Among CEOs, this change was 20 percent; it […]

Study: For IT execs, men face salary gap While the gender wage gap may be alive and kicking among technology workers, the pendulum swung in the opposite direction among executive-level IT professionals in 2006, according to the annual salary survey released on Jan. 24 by Dice, a career site for IT and engineering professionals. The […]

With computer, management and legal positions in highest demand, temporary employment is expected to grow three times as fast as total employment over the next decade, according to the 2007 Temporary Jobs Guidebook report released Feb. 5 by Staffing Industry Analysts, a Los Altos provider of workforce market intelligence. Demand for IT workers remains strong […]

Jumping seven places from its rank the year prior, Microsoft came in first place in national corporate reputation according to a survey released by Harris Interactive on Feb. 1. Falling behind Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson ranked second in corporate reputation, and 3M ranked number three. “Sixty-nine percent of respondents rated the reputation of corporate America […]