Deborah Rothberg

Citigroup announced plans on July 10 to build a Information Technology and Consumer Innovation Training Center in Blue Ash, Ohio, that it said will eventually employ up to 1,000 IT professionals. The company intends to hire 400 tech professionals by the time the center opens in October of this year, and hopes to be up […]

Eighty-seven percent of IT staff are forced to work nights, weekends and holidays, according to a study released July 10 by KACE, a provider of IT automation solutions. The study argues that a lack of automation of “repetitive and time-consuming” IT processes, such as patch management, inventory and new machine deployment, is to blame for […]

For the fourth month in a row, technology professionals have felt more confident in their jobs than the U.S. workforce 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 the national index of 102.4. The […]

San Jose and Silicon Valley remain Californias strongest technology epicenter, drawing the highest salaries and employing the most tech workers, according to the California Cybercities 2006 report, released June 27 by the AeA, a tech industry trade association. San Jose and Silicon Valley employed 214,900 tech industry workers in 2004 and paid them an annual […]

A study released May 31 by Spherion Pacific Enterprises, a recruiting and staffing firm based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., found that nearly half of the U.S. IT work force plans to change jobs in the next year. While this means great things for techies—the same study found that IT workers beat the overall work force […]

“This article is a joke, isnt it?” an eWEEK reader asked in response to our story, “Beyond the Valley: 10 Blooming U.S. Cities for Tech.” “You didnt mention Austin, Houston or Denver, all home to major players and startups, but you give New Jersey an honorable mention?” This was just the beginning of the feedback. […]

A report filed June 22 by the Government Accountability Office, a congressional oversight agency, confirmed what many critics of the H-1B visa program have long maintained: Thousands of U.S. guest workers are being paid less than the prevailing wages for their jobs. The report cites a lack of oversight and deficient quality control by the […]

It was only a few years ago that parents were cautioning their children not to set off into technology careers; the recession after the boom years shattered the sheen on the field, which no longer seemed a safe place to invest ones future. Economists, politicians and businesses alike began fretting over an anticipated tech “brain […]

The Programmers Guild, an IT worker interest group, has filed 300 discrimination complaints so far this year against companies alleged to have posted “H-1B visa holders only” ads on job boards. “Abuse of the H-1B program has become so widespread that companies apparently feel free to engage openly in the practice. And we are only […]

BlackBerry on the beach: You call this a vacation? Twenty-seven percent of the work force will pack their laptops, cell phones and PDAs along with their flip-flops this summer, according to CareerBuilder.coms annual vacation survey, released June 7. Men are the biggest work-aholics, with 33 percent expecting to work on projects or check in with […]

Average salaries for all IT positions has remained relatively the same (0.05 percent) over the last year, falling slightly (-0.04 percent) to $75,126 in midsized companies and edging up (1.01 percent) to $81,078 in large ones, according to the June 2006 IT Salary Survey from Janco Associates released June 19. Yet, the survey evidences a […]

There is a ferocious debate among business, employment, technology and urban planning publications of late over the location of the next big U.S. technology hub. Some put their money on the Rocky Mountain region, others point to massive land purchases by Google and Microsoft in potato country, but one of the things almost unanimously agreed […]