Deb Perelman

IT departments, with the exception of those that serve the housing and credit sectors, have been so far immune to the effects of the economic slowdown. But new data suggests techies are feeling the squeeze as well-and significantly so. IT compensation remained flat in the first two quarters of 2008, found the 2008 Mid-Year IT […]

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 they’d recommend a career in their industry to their offspring, coupled with a Bureau of Labor Statistics prediction that the job market for computer professionals will grow at a record pace […]

Though not all were created equally, IT certifications once had an almost-guaranteed value. In the years after the dot-com bust, many IT pros stocked up certifications namely in an effort to improve their job security. Their managers, in turn, used these accreditations to assure their value to the organization’s penny-pinchers. But when speaking to CIOs, […]

Last week, I wrote a bit about the impossibility of “unwired” vacations, especially if you work in the part of IT where your job is essentially to be on call in case of blips or outages. Some people told me that they stay connected while they’re on vacation because their bosses or managers demand that […]

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 would make life a little easier for foreign graduates of U.S. universities awaiting H-1B visas by extending the amount of time they are allowed to stay in the country after graduation […]

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 take to get a job. Compared with 18.9 weeks for younger workers, it took workers 55 and older 25.8 weeks on average to find a job in 2004, according to […]

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 doesn’t paint the program in the most positive light, a rudimentary analysis by a technology blog of Google’s California H-1B data for the last three years suggests that Google might be […]

Unwired vacations and the work of IT professionals don’t mix. IT workers are in many ways like other kinds of on-call professionals in the health care and security industries, for whom evenings, weekends and holidays are par for the workplace course. So it should be little surprise that the majority of IT professionals say they […]

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 Facebook employees were rumored to be losing their $600-per-month housing stipend from the company if they live within one mile of the office, we didn’t exactly break out the violins. Nevertheless, […]

Since the advent of the PDA-and to a lesser degree, cell phones and laptops-workers have been decrying the end of vacation as they know it. Technology has given employers the ability to reach workers at all times in all places-making it impossible for employees to maintain boundaries between times off and being on-the-clock. The villains […]