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Pay Inequity Shows No Signs of Waning

At many of the nation's biggest companies, the wage gap between white men and nearly everyone else in the workplace still exists, according to...

Programmers at Work, 22 Years Later

In 1986, Microsoft Press editor Susan Lammers assembled a collection of interviews with software pioneers into a book titled Programmers at Work. It was...

Nostalgia for Extinct Tech Skills

Technology never stays the same for very long, leaving those who use it daily or build a career around it with a near-constant scurry...

Sweet Deals for Future Former Yahoo Employees

Less than a week after laying off 1,000 employees, Yahoo is doing what it can to keep its remaining work force from fleeing for...

D.C. Region Struggling to Fill AOL’s Vacuum

Last October, AOL laid off 20 percent of its workforce. A large number of these jobs were cut from its Northern Virginia headquarters, where...

Recruiters Dogpile on Ex-Yahoos

The struggling Yahoo laid off 1,000 workers this week. Gone are its vice president of marketing, senior manager of integrated campaign strategy and vice...

Winners and Losers in Job Search Game

Nearly by default, once a job-seeker gets their resume tuned up and cleared of embarrassing gaffes, the next place they go is to one...

IT Superheroes Get Their Day

Reviving a crashed server until the wee hours of the morning! Encrypting CDs! Fending off spammers, hackers and other villains with a single patch!Though...

Yang’s (Lowercased) Words to Yahoo Workers

Yesterday, we got a peek at how Ballmer was keeping the Microsoft troops calm in the midst of the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations. In a leaked...