Deborah Rothberg

In a change from prior pay structures, more than half of IT professionals are now earning better pay for additional tech skills, but not via cash bonuses, according to a study released Aug. 2 by Foote Partners, a New Canaan, Conn.-based IT workforce research company. The study, which surveyed 54,000 IT pros, found that in […]

Fifty percent of IT workers surveyed said they are not likely to look for a new job in the coming months, up from 44 percent last quarter, which may suggest greater satisfaction in their current employment situations, according to a report released Aug. 1 by Spherion, a recruiting and staffing firm. Down from 48 percent […]

As part of a larger effort to combat the shortage of skills in the IT marketplace, IBM is bringing its application development technologies right through the front doors of academia. The company is hosting its first statewide university workshop to boost student application development skills Aug. 1-3 at North Carolina State University and including schools […]

The high-tech, healthcare and financial service industries are expected to create the most executive-level jobs in the third quarter, according to the latest EER (Executive Employment Report) released July 31 by ExecuNet, a executive job search and networking firm. Across all industries, the demand for executive talent is the greatest in the health care, banking […]

There are no shortages of pronouncements of a full economic recovery from the post-boom recession years. Tech job cuts are at a six-year low, IT operational budgets are at the highest levels since 1997, and tech wages are at a five-year high, and this is just a gathering from reports issued this week. Yet, IT […]

Tech companies have returned to normal hiring, though the overall turnover rate dropped slightly in this past quarter, according to a survey released July 24 by San Jose, Calif.-based Radford Surveys and Consulting. The Q2 QSIT (Quarterly Summary of Industry Trends) Survey of technology companies found that turnover at tech companies fell slightly from 12.6 […]

Poor leadership, not salaries or benefits, is the leading cause of low workplace morale, according to a survey released July 24 by Challenger, Grey and Christmas, a Chicago-based outplace consulting organization. Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of the responding human resources executives put the blame for low morale on leadership problems. /zimages/1/28571.gifBad boss? Fix your bosss […]

Second-quarter tech wages continue to outpace those for 2005, according to the latest Index of Technology Wages, released July 24 from Yoh Services, a Philadelphia-based provider of talent and outsourcing services. In addition, the current Q2 average is the highest since the Index began tracking wages in 2001. The Index—which compares current average wages over […]

A request for the public release of data containing the names of the companies requesting H-1B temporary workers and the positions they are being hired for was filed in a public letter to the Department of Labor July 18 by the Programmers Guild, an IT advocacy group. In the open letter to William Carlson, chief […]

Suits (business guys) and geeks (IT guys) are like oil and water–it sometimes seems like they were just not made to get along. The notorious fracture between the two groups stems from everything from a misunderstanding of each others roles to a distrust of the others practices, and is to blame for an assortment of […]