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Microsoft’s Plan: Hire from Without

When a company needs to hire, they've got two places to look: inside their ranks or outside their organization.Human Resource experts will tell you...

What’s Your Job Doing to Keep You from Retiring?

Home Depot may not be the first company people think of when they think of organizations that aggressively recruit older workers, but that's usually...

Is Google Dodging H-1B Limits?

Of all the reasons that Google listed when it let slip this week that it will be hiring thousands to create an European research...

Inventor of the Web Criticizes ‘Stupid’ Male Geek Culture

It's little news that technology is predominantly a male environment. Blame for the imbalance is typically placed on a low amount of natural interest...

5 of 10 Richest Americans are Tech Execs

Technology executives once again dominate Forbes' list of the richest Americans, with half of the top ten coming in as tech-made billionaires.While Microsoft top...

The Newest Silicon Valley Hotshot is 12

If you thought it was hard enough to compete with a bunch of 20-something geek brainiacs in a garage in Menlo Park, California, you...

Companies Resorting to E-Mailed Pink Slips

As if getting laid off weren't dehumanizing enough, 10 percent of U.S. employees say that their company has used e-mail to fire or lay...

As Traffic Gets Worse, Workers Suffer

While being allowed to telecommute is a beloved perk for some employees, among most IT professionals—for whom being "on task" means being "on-site"—working remotely...

The Co-ed Quotient in IT Invention

In a week in which patent news is all over the wires, some new research presented an interesting blip on the radar screen: If...

Recalculating Work-Life Balance

I recently spoke to someone who called talk of work-life balance, more or less, hooey. He felt that the topic gets a rather tired...