Don E. Sears

Stressed out technology workers who have been drowning in work because of staff reductions in 2009 will see some relief in the coming year, predicted researchers at Computer Economics in a study titled “Outlook for IT Staffing and Spending in 2010,” released Dec. 15. In 2010, 39 percent of 139 companies surveyed plan to increase […]

Business may not grow tremendously in 2010, but executives and business leaders–62 percent of them–expect information technology to play a vital role in business recovery, said a recent Gartner study of 190 respondents. The report, entitled “Early Findings From the 2010 Gartner CEO and Business Executive Survey,” found that 42 percent of executives from companies […]

Seventy-two percent of senior managers place a higher value on the role of information technology because of the economic crisis, according to a December Accenture study of more than 550 executives. IT is seen as a critical component of helping businesses recover from the poor economic conditions, and managers are looking to invest in technology […]

European mobile network equipment maker and mobile phone giant Ericsson plans to cut roughly 946 employees in two of its production locations in Sweden. The job cuts are targeted at production staff in the cities of Gavle and Boras, according to news reports. “We must reduce our production staff because the labour requirement for our […]

Canopy Financial, a health care software company, is on the hot seat for misleading and defrauding investors and auditors on its financial health. Canopy’s COO, Jeremy Blackburn, is facing both criminal and civil charges and faces a potential 20-year prison sentence and civil fines of $250,000 and mandatory restitution. The Justice Department alleges Blackburn submitted […]

It seems the stigma of unemployment isn’t what it used to be, given the economy, reduced hiring and increased layoffs in the worst recession seen in generations. New research from a Boston-based staffing company shows over 40 percent of executives don’t put a lot of weight on whether an IT job candidate has been unemployed […]

The first quarter of 2010 will see some minor IT hiring increases, but also a small amount of IT job loss, according to a Robert Half Technology study released Dec. 1. Of 1,400 CIOs surveyed, 7 percent said they expect an increase in hiring, while 4 percent expect to reduce staff for a net gain […]

There are a number of technology jobs and job areas that will not be coming back to the United States anytime soon, according to a study by global consultancy The Hackett Group. Between 2010 and 2014, nearly 2 million back-office IT jobs in infrastructure services, help desk and data centers are expected to be lost. […]

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 […]