Deb Perelman

Citing a macho, frat-boy atmosphere in the sales department, up to 500 former saleswomen at EMC are considering a class action sexual discrimination lawsuit against the storage giant, should a judge open an existing case on Sept. 17. Alleging discrimination and harassment, two women filed a lawsuit against the Hopkinton, Mass. company in 2004. A […]

At an estimated cost of between $70 million to $130 million, outsourcing giant EDS said in a Sept. 12 Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it will offer early retirement packages to about 12,000 U.S. employees in the fourth quarter, or more than 11 percent of its 136,000 worldwide work force. After receiving board authorization […]

While widely available job boards and advanced recruitment technology have undoubtedly made it easy for those seeking new employment, the system has its own set of problems. Advanced recruitment technology may have more or less done away with annoyances such as paper resumes on linen-like stationery, but it has come with its own drawbacks, the […]

Originally coined as a riff on Silicon Valley, the name Silicon Alley was given to the large concentration of Internet and new media companies in New York City in the late 1990s. Yet the term, along with the citys reputation as a tech hot spot, scattered after the dot-com bust, and companies that managed to […]

$75,458 – Average pay for NYC technology jobs in 2004 [most recent year for which a full set of data was available], a full 21 percent above average private employer earnings of $62,545 18,446 – Number of students enrolled in graduate science and engineering programs in the New York area in 2004, significantly more than […]

Average IT salary: Rose 4.74 percent to $80,006 between 2005 and 2006, the third highest in the nation. Source: Dice.com New York Regions IT Job Postings: 11,046 in August 2007; postings grew 22 percent between December 2006 and April 2007. Source: Dice.com IT Unemployment: Hovers around 4 percent. Source: Dice.com Hiring Outlook: 15 percent of […]

If one were to walk down Ninth Avenue in New York City, one could stand squarely in front of Googleplex Easts front doors and not know they were at the feet of Web giants. The building is entirely devoid of Google icons, from its signature red-blue-yellow-green logo to the much fawned-over foosball tables and Razor […]

Indian software firm Wipro has laid plans to open a big software development center in Atlanta, it announced Sept. 6. The Bangalore, India-based firm expects to hire more than 500 computer programmers over the next three years and set up a training center to provide technical and soft-skills training to its employees in Georgia. This […]

As if on cue from Google, a company with such a widely-praised employee bus service, the New York Times wrote a beaming article about it in March, Microsoft announced Sept. 7 that it would be launching a free express bus service for employees to and from its Redmond headquarters later this month. The Wi-Fi enabled […]

Days after announcing his Sept. 30 resignation, news spread that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was reconsidering his decision after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting, and may still fight for his Senate seat. “It’s not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign,” Sidney Smith, Craig’s spokesman […]