Deb Perelman

The gasoline tanker that crashed and burst into flames near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge April 29 did more than melt and collapse a stretch of the highway overpass; it caused a traffic disaster that is expected to clog commuters for the weeks and months to come. In what is already being called the worst […]

Admitting that finding, hiring and retaining qualified employees is their biggest operational challenge, nearly half of fast-growth technology CEOs said they are tapping overseas markets for talent. This is a trend they expect to only increase over the next five years, according to 2007 CEO Survey released by Deloitte, a Swiss Verein, May 1. However, […]

Admitting that she had fabricated her own academic credentials, Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, resigned from her post on April 26 after nearly three decades with the college. The news came as a shock to the MIT student body and community, as Jones was famous for urging stressed-out […]

Colorado, once considered among the most promising hubs for technology companies, took a big employment and market share hit in recent years, finds the Cyberstates 2007 report, released on April 24. After holding first place in tech concentration for nine years, Colorado fell to third place, according to the report by AeA, a Washington D.C., […]

When most people think of big high-tech hubs, what comes to mind is Silicon Valley. In-the-know IT workers might also add Northern Virginia, Denver or Austin to that list. But rarely is much said about Florida, which, according to the AEAs “Cyberstates 2007” report, is the fourth-largest and second-fastest-growing technology hub. Floridas high-tech industry added […]

Though still down a total of 809,100 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force since 2000, the high-tech industry has made great strides in the past two years towards recovering this loss, finds the Cyberstates 2007 report, released on April 24. According to the report, released for the tenth consecutive year by the AeA, […]

Didnt use all of your vacation days last year? Youre not alone. More than half of workers dont use all of their vacation time, finds a survey published on April 18 by Hudson, an employment services firm. The survey suggests that workers are apprehensive about using all of their vacation time allotted in a year, […]

Havent done your taxes yet? Youre not alone. The IRS estimates that over 20 percent of taxpayers file their returns during the final two weeks of tax season, and while it hasnt collected data on this, a shocking number probably file the weekend before. Nonetheless, you might want to get on it—you have until 11:59 […]

To add more value to their work, CIOs should stop defining services in technical rather than business terms and should spend less time policing budget priorities, business research firm Gartner advised in a report released April 5. Most CIOs surveyed for the report said they were often stretched too thin between delivering on new enterprise […]

A surprising number of tech professionals are insecure about their business skills, concerned that they dont have the necessary career skills to make the leap from the cubicle to a corner office, finds a monthly outlook on the IT job market released April 10 by technology careers site Dice. Thirty-five percent of IT professionals responded […]