Deb Perelman

ORLANDO, Fla.—Technology is no idle threat to the environment. Despite their seemingly inert appearances, PCs, servers, data centers, cell phones, LANs, WANs, printers, disk storage and IT infrastructure worldwide account for an estimated 2 percent of global CO2 emissions. For all the current talk about the importance of “greening” IT for the common good, little […]

In 2006, the pop-techno musician Moby told everyone he knew that hed decided to stop using e-mail. Of course, he did this over e-mail, and being a celebrity, this e-mail eventually made it to a few entertainment news sites. All had a good laugh when he confessed that his experiment had failed a few months […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Google is often showcased as the poster child for workplace creativity and innovation, in no small part because early on—in their pre-IPO statement of intention, no less—the company declared that, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” Yet most conventional companies will never be a Google. Few have […]

Nearly a year ago, eWEEK asked 13 CIOs how they got where they were that day. Did they follow a preformed career path, climbing the IT department career ladder rung for rung? Or did they rove in and out of the IT department on their road to success? We learned that nearly half didn’t even […]

It’s not news that employees are often the enemy of IT security, from idly surfing questionable sites to downloading screen savers (“But it said it was safe!”) to more famous cases of opening misleadingly flattering e-mails. But are they network security Public Enemy Number One? A new report says just this. Employee misuse of computer […]

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 that the first option is the favorable one, and not just because it may seem more convenient: hiring from within is seen as a huge boost to employee morale. In […]

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 before they hear about its Snowbird program. Snowbirds, a term for Americans of retirement age who head south for the winter while living up north in the summer, aren’t exactly considered […]

Of all the reasons that Google listed when it let slip this week that it will be hiring thousands to create an European research and development team as big as the one it has in the United States, it never mentioned that hiring in the EU would allow it to dodge some of the limitations […]

WASHINGTON D.C.—Two weeks ago, EDS offered early retirement to 12,000 U.S. employees, the second time the outsourcing giant has tried to cut costs by thinning out the ranks of older employees in this manner in the past three years. Indeed, plenty of organizations figure that the easiest way to cut costs is by cutting ties […]

WASHINGTON—An education crisis looms, and if it is not addressed promptly and effectively it could undermine the prosperity of future generations of Americans. This was the message from the U.S. Chambers ICW (Institute for a Competitive Workforce) at its annual Education and Workforce Summit, Sept. 24 – 26 in Washington, D.C. The event was part […]