Deborah Rothberg

A request for the public release of data containing the names of the companies requesting H-1B temporary workers and the positions they are being hired for was filed in a public letter to the Department of Labor July 18 by the Programmers Guild, an IT advocacy group. In the open letter to William Carlson, chief […]

Suits (business guys) and geeks (IT guys) are like oil and water–it sometimes seems like they were just not made to get along. The notorious fracture between the two groups stems from everything from a misunderstanding of each others roles to a distrust of the others practices, and is to blame for an assortment of […]

The majority of U.S. workers want it all, saying that splitting their time between home and the office is the ideal work arrangement, according to the results of a productivity survey released July 19 by the Hudson Employment Index, a New York-based staffing solutions firm. Fifty-nine percent of the 1,911 respondents believed that telecommuting at […]

There are more opportunities for IT internships this summer than there were a year ago, according to the results of a Web poll released July 18 by the Computer Technology Industry Association, a trade association representing the business interests of IT professionals. 49.3 percent of responding organizations said they planned to hire IT interns this […]

Since its debut in 2005, over 1,200 individuals have achieved IT Architect Certification, the Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability, said on July 18 at its IT Architecture Practitioners Conference in Miami. The ITAC was developed by the Open Group in response to what it perceived as […]

Dampers on IT worker confidence For the fourth month in a row, technology professionals have felt more confident in their jobs than the U.S. work force at large, according to the Hudson Employment Index for IT Workers, released July 5. With a base score of 100, the IT index came in at 108.2, compared with […]

Showing a 26 percent reduction in job cuts, the second quarter of 2006 was a great one for the tech sector, according to a report issued July 13 by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based global outplacement consultancy. The number of Q2 job cuts was the lowest in nearly six years, according to the report. […]

Negotiating or renegotiating your salary is, to say the least, a delicate dance. You want the folks that control the purse strings to show you the money, and if your workplace is like most, theyd rather keep it in their seemingly gold-lined coffers. Your company might be willing to bend a little, but will avoid […]

According to a gender pay survey released July 12, 35 percent of female workers say that they are paid less than men in their workplaces with similar experience and qualifications. This number has grown 4 percent since the companys 2003 “Men and Women at Work” study. Younger female workers reported fewer instances of pay disparity […]

Gas prices, nearing an all-time high, are the workplace topic du jour this summer and studies find that employees are turning to job-hunting closer to home, telecommuting and asking their managers for help to ease the extra fiscal burden. Eighty percent of the workforce would like to work from home, but cant because of managers […]

According to a report issued by the FBI on July 5, individuals in the market for a new job have more to fear than rejection—online job scams are becoming prevalent as more individuals hunt for new employment opportunities online. In a cautionary report, the FBI explains that identity thieves have been known to take advantage […]

The Chicago and Boston metro areas have shown the biggest gains in IT job postings since the beginning of 2006, according to the monthly report released July 11 from Dice.com, a career site for tech professionals. Chicago and Boston have increased their number of tech jobs available 26.6 percent and 35.4 percent respectively since January, […]