Deb Perelman

Early 2007 showed a significant slowdown in the turnover of C-level, or highest-level, executives compared to 2006, according to a report issued on Feb. 6 by Liberum, a New York-based management research firm. Executive level turnover declined 16 percent in January 2007, compared to 12 months ago. Among CEOs, this change was 20 percent; it […]

Study: For IT execs, men face salary gap While the gender wage gap may be alive and kicking among technology workers, the pendulum swung in the opposite direction among executive-level IT professionals in 2006, according to the annual salary survey released on Jan. 24 by Dice, a career site for IT and engineering professionals. The […]

With computer, management and legal positions in highest demand, temporary employment is expected to grow three times as fast as total employment over the next decade, according to the 2007 Temporary Jobs Guidebook report released Feb. 5 by Staffing Industry Analysts, a Los Altos provider of workforce market intelligence. Demand for IT workers remains strong […]

Jumping seven places from its rank the year prior, Microsoft came in first place in national corporate reputation according to a survey released by Harris Interactive on Feb. 1. Falling behind Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson ranked second in corporate reputation, and 3M ranked number three. “Sixty-nine percent of respondents rated the reputation of corporate America […]

Daylight-saving time kicks off two weeks early this year, leaving technology professionals scrambling to avoid it wreaking havoc on IT systems. The 2005 act amended the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which simplified the official pattern of daylight-saving time, changing the start and end dates to extend it by four weeks. Starting in 2007, clocks […]

Everyone knows The Solitaire Guy. Hes the one with the red message light on his phone always blinking, the one that gives the “Ill get to it, Ill get to it” brush-off whenever hes asked when hell get his tasks done. Hes late to meetings, forgets to return phone calls, his desk is cluttered and […]

Shared Services Organizations can help HR organizations reduce process costs by up to 80 percent, while generating similar improvements in internal customer satisfaction, productivity and quality, according to the 2006 Enterprise Book of Numbers research released by the Atlanta-based Hackett Group, a strategic advisory firm, on Jan. 30. In their approach to SSOs, Hackett found […]

Generation X managers may struggle to fill Baby Boomers shoes as they retire over the next 10 years and company leadership transitions to the younger group, according to new research. PDI (Personnel Decisions Internal), a Minneapolis-based global human resources consulting firm, on Jan. 30 released a report saying that 22.5 million Baby Boomers are on […]

Calling Vistas November 2006 business launch more of a “message to organizations that they could start official testing” than the beginning of a time in which the operating system would appear on millions of enterprise machines, a report released Jan. 30 by Gartner offers IT professionals advice on planning and deploying Vista. Now that the […]

Just 140,694 federal workers telecommuted in 2005, 7.7 percent of the federal work force and less than one-fifth (19 percent) of those who were eligible, according to a report released by the U.S. General Services Administration Jan. 29 as part of an effort to attract more workers into their telecommuting program. Federal managers, supervisors and […]