Don E. Sears

If and when the job market opens up in 2010, you can be assured that senior technology management will be concerned about keeping talented employees. Avoiding losing the best employees is a key issue for many CIOs, according to a recent survey by staffing company Robert Half Technology. Other recent studies from 2009 predict that […]

Top 16 Declining Technology Salaries for 2010 by Don Sears Web Developer Down 2.8%2009 Salary: $60,000 – $89,7502010 Salary: $57,500 – $88,000 Data Warehouse Analyst Down 2.8%2009 Salary: $81,500 – $109,7502010 Salary: $79,000 – $106,000 Developer/Programmer Analyst Down 2.8%2009 Salary: $60,000 – $100,7502010 Salary: $57,000 – $99,250 Systems Administrator Down 2.8%2009 Salary: $52,750 – $82,5002010 […]

Security, Virtualization Top 2010 IT Budget Wish List by Don Sears Information Security 45% find protection of customer data and company data as the most important area of IT in 2010. Virtualization 28% plan to use this performance-boosting and efficiency-laden technology in 2010. Data Center Efficiency 28% want to realize the benefits of energy-reducing strategies […]

AOL plans to reduce its operating cost, and so is asking for so-called voluntary layoffs. Involuntary layoffs will follow if AOL does not hit its target of shedding $200 million in the first half of 2010. Time Warner plans to spin the company off in 2010.AOL will be reducing its work force by 2,500 of […]

Struggling sales are forcing Sony Ericsson to continue job cuts. Between now and the end of August 2010, the No. 4 ranking handset maker will eliminate another 1,600 jobs from the 400 already laid off this year. Sony Ericsson is consolidating operations, moving U.S.-based research and development offices, and closing five other offices in the […]

A monthly report from technology job board Dice shows increases in job postings in a number of larger metropolitan areas. New York City and nearby New Jersey, as well as California’s Silicon Valley, are expanding job openings. Austin, Texas, and Charlotte, N.C., also make the list of technology job expansion. Unemployment in the United States […]

Sprint Nextel plans to lay off between 2,000 to 2,500 jobs in the fourth quarter of 2009. The Overland, Kan.-based wireless technology carrier wants to slash about $350 million in internal and external labor force annualized, but will spend between $60 million and $80 million in severance packages for employees and related job reduction costs.Details […]

Unemployment is more than 10 percent, revenues for many businesses in technology are down and cost cutting has been the mantra all year. Gartner suggests that now is the ideal time to take a hard look at how IT functions within a business and that the coming year will be a game-changer in many professionals’ […]

With 3 million customers and only 16 employees, 37Signals seems to have found a nice balance for its employees and its owners; at least, that’s the impression one takes from a recent article written in Inc. by one of 37Signals’ founders, Jason Fried.Want to work at home? Cool. Want to come in to the office? […]

Nokia Siemens Networks, the European telecommunications provider in the mobile, converged and managed services businesses, plans to cut 7 to 9 percent of its work force in announced restructuring and business realignment of major departments. The layoffs, dubbed by the company as “strategic work force rebalancing,” will affect 4,500 to 6,000 employees worldwide out of […]

Galleon Group is the Wall Street hedge fund that recently had one of its key members, Raj Rajaratnam, arrested by the Department of Justice after years of wiretaps revealed that he, hedge fund manager Danielle Chiesi of New Castle Partners and five other financial and technology executives–including IBM Senior Vice President Robert Moffatt–had been engaging […]

Spending on technology hardware and software is expected to rise back to pre-financial collapse numbers from August 2008, said a report by hardware and software reseller vendor CDW. In a recent survey of 1,000 IT decision makers, 67 percent of those in the government and corporate sectors are reporting they will make hardware purchases in […]