Deb Perelman

According to a survey released by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing firm, 14 percent of CIOs say they intend to increase their headcount in Q2 2008, while only 2 percent anticipate reductions, painting an upbeat picture of the IT hiring landscape. The net 12 percent hiring increase is up 2 percent from Q1, and […]

Think you can get away with abusing e-mail and Intenet policies at work? A new study says, “heck no.” More than a quarter of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and one-third have fired workers for misusing the Internet, according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from the American Management Association and […]

With blame levied everywhere from the after-effects of the dot-com bust to the impact of offshoring on IT job stability, there is little question that student interest in pursuing careers in computers and technology has declined in the last seven years. Two new studies sought to quantify the decline by looking at declared computer science […]

If you think you work harder than your boss, you’re in the vast majority, and according to some economic theory you’re probably right. According to a new poll from Monster.com, 77 percent of U.S. workers feel they toil longer and harder than those who sign their paychecks. Though Monster itself admits that their polling process […]

Though it shouldn’t be a surprise that when one of the biggest tech companies in the world makes a hostile bid on another that the employees of each organization may be left a little unsettled, it is rare that such a sentiment makes it into a SEC filing. Yet this is exactly what Yahoo stated […]

The $1 salary-it sounds so noble, doesn’t it? In recent years, more and more executives at big tech companies have opted for a salary of mere pennies, choosing instead to base their pay on the performance of the company’s stock-in other words, on the company itself. Executives who opt for the $1 salary include Yahoo […]

As technology continuously shifts and innovates, IT professionals face a steady pressure to keep their skills up to date. Given the even more rapid pace at which IT security evolves, those employees who need to incorporate security measures into aspects of their work face extra scrutiny. A new study finds that what is being done, […]

At many of the nation’s biggest companies, the wage gap between white men and nearly everyone else in the workplace still exists, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau analysis. In fact, it was only with Asian-American men, where median wages were just one percent less than […]

The effects of a sub-prime mortgage crisis, financial market volatility and a shifting global economy are disproportionately affecting midwage technology workers in Silicon Valley. In 2006, only 46 percent of the jobs in Silicon Valley were midwage, paying between $30,000 and $80,000 a year, down from 52 percent in 2002, according to the 2008 Index […]

In 1986, Microsoft Press editor Susan Lammers assembled a collection of interviews with software pioneers into a book titled Programmers at Work. It was one of the first times in history that computer programming was shown to blend both art and science and not just the domain of computer engineers and university computer scientists. The […]

Technology never stays the same for very long, leaving those who use it daily or build a career around it with a near-constant scurry to keep their skills up to date. The longer people have been around, the more extinct technology skills they’ve probably amassed, from those probably not mourned a whole lot–putting a needle […]