Deb Perelman

Adding more than 30,000 new jobs, Silicon Valleys per capita income, average pay and value-added per worker showed significant gains last year, according to the 2007 Silicon Valley Index, a report to be released by the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network at its annual conference Feb. 2. In the first time since 2001, employment in […]

Despite employer policies, threats and monitoring, the vast majority of workers still use company technology for personal use, according to a survey commissioned by Lawyers.com, released Jan. 24. Though nearly one-half (45 percent) of respondents reported that they been explicitly informed by superiors that their technology usage at work is monitored, most still use it […]

While a 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 New York-based Dice, a career site for IT and engineering professionals. The report also noted a continued occurrence […]

Microsofts new operating system may be the most eagerly anticipated release of the past 10 years, but concerns over compatibility, bugs and security are keeping many IT professionals from doing so soon, according to the survey released Jan. 23 by Cambridge, Mass.-based Bit9, a provider of desktop lockdown solutions. Only 68 percent of IT pros […]

Middle managers are discontent, study says Middle managers around the world are dissatisfied and feel stagnant in their positions, according to an annual survey released Jan. 9 by Accenture, a global management consulting and outsourcing company. In a survey of more than 1,400 middle managers in nine countries, only four out of 10 respondents said […]

IT workers reported confidence in the job market, job availability and the economy at the end of 2006, according to a report released Jan. 22 by staffing and recruitment firm, Spherion. The surveys results suggest that a lot of technology professionals will be jumping ship this quarter. Nearly half of IT workers (46 percent) reported […]

Job availability waned in all of the top U.S. metropolitan markets in December, according to the Monster Local Employment Index, released by the New York-based online job board Jan. 22. Portland, Ore., after four consecutive months, took the biggest hit in December, due predominantly to a loss in white-collar opportunities in IT, engineering and management, […]

Telecommuters are less likely to advance in their careers than workers who toil in traditional office settings, according to survey results released Jan. 16 by Korn/Ferry International, a Los Angeles-based recruitment firm. More than half (61 percent) of the 1,320 global executives surveyed said they saw career stagnancy among telecommuting workers. /zimages/5/28571.gifA study shows professional […]

Imagine applying for a systems administrator position at Yahoo with the knowledge that you have more years of education and experience than 80 percent of the other applicants. Monster, a careers site based in Maynard, Mass., announced Jan. 17 it would be adding a feature that shares this information, along with a series of other […]

Majority of employees on job hunt The new year could bring resignations aplenty, as more than 75 percent of employees are currently looking for new jobs, according to a poll released Dec. 19 by the Society for Human Resource Management and The Wall Street Journals CareerJournal.com. That follows what already was a busy 2006. Surveyed […]