Deb Perelman

Though it shouldn’t be a surprise that when one of the biggest tech companies in the world makes a hostile bid on another that the employees of each organization may be left a little unsettled, it is rare that such a sentiment makes it into a SEC filing. Yet this is exactly what Yahoo stated […]

The $1 salary-it sounds so noble, doesn’t it? In recent years, more and more executives at big tech companies have opted for a salary of mere pennies, choosing instead to base their pay on the performance of the company’s stock-in other words, on the company itself. Executives who opt for the $1 salary include Yahoo […]

As technology continuously shifts and innovates, IT professionals face a steady pressure to keep their skills up to date. Given the even more rapid pace at which IT security evolves, those employees who need to incorporate security measures into aspects of their work face extra scrutiny. A new study finds that what is being done, […]

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 a Wall Street Journal analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau analysis. In fact, it was only with Asian-American men, where median wages were just one percent less than […]

The effects of a sub-prime mortgage crisis, financial market volatility and a shifting global economy are disproportionately affecting midwage technology workers in Silicon Valley. In 2006, only 46 percent of the jobs in Silicon Valley were midwage, paying between $30,000 and $80,000 a year, down from 52 percent in 2002, according to the 2008 Index […]

In 1986, Microsoft Press editor Susan Lammers assembled a collection of interviews with software pioneers into a book titled Programmers at Work. It was one of the first times in history that computer programming was shown to blend both art and science and not just the domain of computer engineers and university computer scientists. The […]

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 to keep their skills up to date. The longer people have been around, the more extinct technology skills they’ve probably amassed, from those probably not mourned a whole lot–putting a needle […]

By the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own count, women hold 27 percent, just over a quarter, of jobs in computer-related and mathematical occupations. As a result of IT’s numerical dominance by men, it has long been viewed as unreceptive to women. Even among women working in technology, dissatisfaction and disenchantment is high. By many accounts, […]

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 greener–or perhaps Googler–pastures, by instituting retention bonuses and souped-up severance packages, in the event that they don’t want to work for Yahoo’s new landlords. So, exactly how sweet are the severance […]