Donald Sears

That’s right, Rockwell, Michael Jackson and the Geico “Money That You Could Be Saving”: You do, in fact, always feel like someone is watching you and your private information at work. You’re not paranoid. Your fellow employees–to the tune of 35 percent–have admitted to ignoring security policies and looking at your salary information, your medical […]

The laws of supply and demand are in full effect. Despite there being a slight gain in technology consulting jobs according to government data, the latest Dice Report for June is not a pretty picture. Dice is a technology job board that is used by many technology recruiters, hiring managers and general techie workers looking […]

The majority of the news around technology employment has been weak or negative lately. But there does appear to be one small nugget of good news in the U.S. government’s recent data: Tech consulting services are up. There are a few ways to look at this, but before dissecting, here is what Foote Partners–an IT […]

More government data was released today that shows what was expected: more total unemployment cumulatively, fewer jobs being lost than there were half a year ago. Here are the key nuggets of info from the June 5 Bureau of Labor Statistics report: “Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 345,000 in May, about half the average monthly […]

For those of you in IT that are watching fringe benefits and workplace perks go out the window like GM’s stock price, some advice is here to help keep up your daily motivation. Motivation for a job should probably not come from free pizza, chai lattes in the work kitchen or expensive gourmet team dinners […]

Are major technology companies such as Google, Apple and others violating antitrust laws by negotiating not to hire away top talent from each other? That’s what the federal government is said to be investigating, according to an article in the Washington Post. From the article: “The review, which is said to be in its preliminary […]

Robert Half Technology has released its latest report, the IT Hiring Index and Skills Report, and the news is that there will be a little hiring in the third quarter of 2009. However, the most telling statistic to me is this: 85 percent of CIOs are set to maintain staffing levels. That’s good news for […]

On the day when General Motors files for bankruptcy, a new report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas asserts that, in lieu of layoffs, more companies are either freezing salaries or cutting pay, but not totally ridding themselves of full-time employees. Some companies sense an economic recovery in the next year to eighteen months, and some […]

The U.S. government, at least the part that is fighting H-1B visa fraud, is looking to prove a point about the program: that fraud in H-1B visa program and the number of visa holders in U.S. tech jobs are putting current struggling American technology workers out of work. Unemployment for the technology industry is up, […]

The Department of Labor has put out its latest news on weekly unemployment numbers and the news has a little good, and enough bad to keep things pretty much the same. The sort-of good news is that the current rate of weekly layoff numbers is down; the bad news is that the number of individuals […]

There’s an old saying: “Fish stinks from the head.” Nowhere does this mean more than in business where companies rely on leadership to captain the ship. But how often do our business and technology leaders look at themselves in the mirror, or better yet, let their teams evaluate them from the perspective of how their […]

It seems no one is safe from layoffs, but fear of age discrimination lawsuits by older workers may be forcing out younger workers, says a recent article at the WSJ. From the article, which cites recent Labor Depratment figures and labor attorneys: “The unemployment rate for those between the ages of 25 and 34 was […]