Deb Perelman

In the first quarter of 2007, IT professionals raked in their highest average wages since 2001, finds the Q1 Yoh Index of Technology Wages, released April 11. Technology pay reached an average hourly rate of $31.80 in Q1 2007, finds the report. Wages saw a 5.5 percent bump in January, a 4 percent gain in […]

Feeling the squeeze at your desk today? Are your elbows bumping into the file cabinet? Can you not find an iota of clear space in which to rest your coffee? Is the nearness of your cube walls making you feel a little … claustrophobic? If it makes you feel any better, you’re not the only […]

While the overall U.K. work force is 50 percent women, in IT the percentage of female workers hovers at a low 15 percent, finds research released April 7 by Parity, a U.K.-based business and IT technology services organization. The report calls upon companies to do more to attract female employees to the sector. “Not enough […]

Though it flew largely under the radar, on March 29 Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., introduced a bill that would require employees at a call center who either initiate or receive telephone calls to disclose their physical location. Called the “Call Center Consumer’s Right to Know Act,” the bill hopes to draw consumer attention to the […]

Despite 70 percent of Indian IT professionals having been promoted in the last 12 months and 42 percent in the last six months, nearly half have been with their employers for less than a year, found a survey released on April 6. Job-hopping is de rigueur, according to the survey, released by CyberMedia Dice, a […]

One of the longest-running defenses of the hotly debated H-1B temporary worker visa program is that there are simply not enough U.S. workers to fill many corporations programming, engineering and back-office positions, leaving them no choice but to hire workers from overseas. A new Senate bill—introduced in the final moments before Congress departed for spring […]

Anticipating a hiring slow-down and expressing malcontent in their work, IT worker confidence slipped in March, finds an index released April 4 by New York-based staffing company Hudson. Hudsons IT worker confidence index came in at 109.7 in March, down 2.6 points from February, and down 5.3 points from March 2006. Down from 36 percent […]

A commonly heard defense in the arguments that surround U.S. companies that offshore high-tech and engineering jobs is that the U.S. math and science education system is not producing a sufficient number of engineers to fill a corporations needs. However, a new study from Duke University calls this argument bunk, stating that there is no […]

Breaking yet another record of H-1B visa depletion, the entire supply of specialized-occupation temporary worker visas for the 2008 fiscal year were exhausted the first day they were available, the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) announced April 3. Each year since 2004, when the cap on H-1B visas was slashed from a record high […]

Not only did the middle class of Silicon Valley weather the toughest times during the dot-com bust, theyve also had the hardest time recovering, finds a report issued Mar. 29 by Working Partnerships USA, an economic research and public policy group. “The report is a reality check—analyzing the real and urgent problems facing Santa Clara […]