Deb Perelman

It seems rarely a day passes that a headline doesn’t decry another Web 2.0 “lesson learned,” so to speak, from “Employee Fired for MySpace Profile” to “Workers Squandering Company Time on Message Boards.” Online communities are deemed negative, potential thieves of valuable company resources and time-wasters to be cautioned against. However, it seems unfair that […]

Do you know who is reading your e-mail? Has the fact that there is a good chance that your place of work is reading your outbound e-mail, even those that you send from your personal Web mail accounts, changed your behavior? Did you know that more than one-quarter of U.S. companies have fired an employee […]

IT professionals with SAP skills have seen their salaries mount and demand soar for two years. Salaries for SAP specializations increased 15.2 percent in 2006, according to research released in February by Foote Partners, a New Canaan, Conn., IT workforce research firm. Data from the first two quarters of 2007 suggests little abatement of this […]

Cuba’s ailing leader, Fidel Castro, issued a missive July 17 condemning the U.S. and other wealthy nations for causing Latin American “brain drain” and damaging their economies by encouraging the migration of skilled immigrants. Written on the occasion of the graduation of the first class from the Cuba’s UCI (University of Information Sciences), Castro’s essay […]

By multiple accounts, the IT job market is at its healthiest point since the dot-com bust some six years ago. Nearly 16 percent of CIOs said they intended to hire IT professionals during the first quarter of 2007, found a survey by Robert Half Technology released March 6, and a follow-up second-quarter survey found a […]

As CIOs have changed gears in the last few years from managing enterprise technology to driving business growth within their companies, the shift has also trickled down to what is demanded of the IT professionals within their organizations. Technology workers whose strengths lie in core areas of information and technology have become the most sought-after […]

Though tales of ever-expanding compensation packages for executives and claims that companies have shifted their focus from hiring to retention continue to fill business news coverage, a study suggests that this has had little effect on the contentment of C-level employees. Executive job satisfaction levels are surprisingly low as companies struggle to keep their management […]

Certain you’ll never make it in the Big Apple? Think again. In a recent issue, Forbes Magazine ranks New York as the No. 1 city for young professionals. Though this is far from surprising–many of America’s best companies, from Goldman Sachs to News Corp., make the island of Manhattan their home–great companies alone don’t make […]

What does it take for a country to support a thriving IT sector? The United Sates, Japan, South Korea and the UK have all done a good job of figuring it out. These countries stood out among the 64 nations reviewed in the IT Competitiveness Index, a benchmarking report conducted by the EIU (Economist Intelligence […]

Fed up with U.S. immigration hurdles, Microsoft announced July 5 plans to open a software development center in Vancouver, British Columbia, that it hopes will “be home to software developers from around the world.” Employing as many as 900 workers within a couple years, the facility, to be called the Microsoft Canada Development Centre, is […]