Deb Perelman

Daylight-saving time kicks off two weeks early this year, leaving technology professionals scrambling to avoid it wreaking havoc on IT systems. The 2005 act amended the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which simplified the official pattern of daylight-saving time, changing the start and end dates to extend it by four weeks. Starting in 2007, clocks […]

Everyone knows The Solitaire Guy. Hes the one with the red message light on his phone always blinking, the one that gives the “Ill get to it, Ill get to it” brush-off whenever hes asked when hell get his tasks done. Hes late to meetings, forgets to return phone calls, his desk is cluttered and […]

Shared Services Organizations can help HR organizations reduce process costs by up to 80 percent, while generating similar improvements in internal customer satisfaction, productivity and quality, according to the 2006 Enterprise Book of Numbers research released by the Atlanta-based Hackett Group, a strategic advisory firm, on Jan. 30. In their approach to SSOs, Hackett found […]

Generation X managers may struggle to fill Baby Boomers shoes as they retire over the next 10 years and company leadership transitions to the younger group, according to new research. PDI (Personnel Decisions Internal), a Minneapolis-based global human resources consulting firm, on Jan. 30 released a report saying that 22.5 million Baby Boomers are on […]

Calling Vistas November 2006 business launch more of a “message to organizations that they could start official testing” than the beginning of a time in which the operating system would appear on millions of enterprise machines, a report released Jan. 30 by Gartner offers IT professionals advice on planning and deploying Vista. Now that the […]

Just 140,694 federal workers telecommuted in 2005, 7.7 percent of the federal work force and less than one-fifth (19 percent) of those who were eligible, according to a report released by the U.S. General Services Administration Jan. 29 as part of an effort to attract more workers into their telecommuting program. Federal managers, supervisors and […]

Adding more than 30,000 new jobs, Silicon Valleys per capita income, average pay and value-added per worker showed significant gains last year, according to the 2007 Silicon Valley Index, a report to be released by the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network at its annual conference Feb. 2. In the first time since 2001, employment in […]

Despite employer policies, threats and monitoring, the vast majority of workers still use company technology for personal use, according to a survey commissioned by Lawyers.com, released Jan. 24. Though nearly one-half (45 percent) of respondents reported that they been explicitly informed by superiors that their technology usage at work is monitored, most still use it […]

While a 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 New York-based Dice, a career site for IT and engineering professionals. The report also noted a continued occurrence […]

Microsofts new operating system may be the most eagerly anticipated release of the past 10 years, but concerns over compatibility, bugs and security are keeping many IT professionals from doing so soon, according to the survey released Jan. 23 by Cambridge, Mass.-based Bit9, a provider of desktop lockdown solutions. Only 68 percent of IT pros […]

Middle managers are discontent, study says Middle managers around the world are dissatisfied and feel stagnant in their positions, according to an annual survey released Jan. 9 by Accenture, a global management consulting and outsourcing company. In a survey of more than 1,400 middle managers in nine countries, only four out of 10 respondents said […]

IT workers reported confidence in the job market, job availability and the economy at the end of 2006, according to a report released Jan. 22 by staffing and recruitment firm, Spherion. The surveys results suggest that a lot of technology professionals will be jumping ship this quarter. Nearly half of IT workers (46 percent) reported […]