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E-mail Distraction Costing $650B a Year

Has technology created a monster? E-mail--once a breakthrough in silent, speedy, low-cost communication technology that so seamlessly fits into the information worker's day it...

Congressman: More Models, More Techies

What do models and techies have in common? At the outset, not very much, likely to most geeks' chagrin.Yet, New York Congressman Anthony Weiner,...

IM Good for Productivity, Even if Bad for IT

Is instant messaging an IT irritation, a distraction or an excellent productivity tool? It depends on who you ask.For IT departments, IM is often...

Disillusionment in the IT Ranks

On the heels of a survey of released in May by the IT Job Board that found that three-quarters of IT professionals surveyed said...

Is the Working Vacation a U.S. Phenomenon?

Last week, I wrote a bit about the impossibility of "unwired" vacations, especially if you work in the part of IT where your job...

H-1B Opponents Take Student Extension to Court

In April, just a few days into the filing period for 2009 fiscal year H-1B visas, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it...

The New Rules for Older Job-Hunters

Do the job-hunting rules change as you get older? Many suggest that they do.On one hand, the older you are, the longer it can...

Does Google Pay Its H-1B Workers Better?

In a day and age when most of the salary data that comes out about foreign workers in the United States on H-1B visas...

Facebook Employees Might Lose Their Housing Stipend

You'll have to excuse us for putting this in the "boo-hoo" files, but when news leaked through Valleywag, a tech gossip blog, yesterday that...

Another Employee Is Probably Snooping on You

According to a survey released last week by Forrester Consulting and Proofpoint, an enterprise IT security company, companies are stepping up their efforts to...