Deb Perelman

In one of the biggest outsourcing deals in the last five years, Royal Dutch Shell announced March 31 that it will be farming out its technology and telecommunications infrastructure through three deals valued together at more than $4 billion. AT&T, T-Systems and EDS were the winners of the five-year contracts, with a $1.6 billion networking […]

On April 1, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ office will be hit with an avalanche of H-1B visa applications for the 2009 fiscal year. If the showing is anything like last year-and observers expect there to be more, not less, of a rush-the number of applications received will reach so far beyond the 65,000 […]

According to the Center for Women’s Business Research, women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, and large tech companies are starting to take notice. Teaming up with Donald Trump acolyte and TV personality Carolyn Kepcher, Yahoo has announced a new grant program designed to promote women’s entrepreneurship. The program, Seeds for Success: […]

Holding only 27 percent of computer-related jobs, women have never been strongly represented in IT, and recent studies point to a further decline. The number of computer science bachelor’s degrees awarded to women fell from 36 to 21 percent between 1983 and 2006, according to a study by the National Center for Women & Information […]

Just weeks after a site cropped up serving the sole purpose of waxing nostalgic about extinct technology skills, The New York Times considers why old technologies are “still kicking.” Its prime example is the mainframe, whose demise has been predicted by countless analysts and editors and yet remains to this day a viable career path. […]

The toughest interview question isn’t “Tell me about yourself.” It’s not “Why do you want to work here?” “What don’t you like about your current job?” or even “If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be?” These questions are close runners up, but most experts argue that the toughest interview question […]

Putting the brakes on employees’ incessant demands for total access to technology may be tough at most companies, but can you imagine how hard it is at Google? With the companies near-constant celebration of the employee good life–on-premise dry cleaning, free gourmet food and the much-celebrated 20 Percent Rule–could you imagine explaining to Googlers that […]

LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, expanded its service to include company profiles March 21, relying on the work histories of its individual members to build profiles of enterprises. With additional data provided by BusinessWeek and its sister company, Capital IQ, corporate profiles have largely been culled from data supplied by LinkedIn’s 20 million […]

When the economy slides into a recession, layoffs are inevitable. Whether it’s three or four people laid off, a massive downsizing or a company that has been forced to shut its doors, the layoff experience is nothing short of a nightmare for most workers. Years and even decades of valued work, input and influence on […]

Complaints that some companies are taking advantage of the H-1B visa system are nothing new. But, while most grievances have been about underpaying foreigners or intentionally displacing U.S. workers, the most recent complaint is about businesses that try to game the system. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services found that 500 duplicate applications were filed in […]