Deborah Perelman

Patni Computer Systems, an Indian outsourcing firm, will pay more than 600 H-1B visa holders over $2.4 million in back wages, the U.S Department of Labor announced June 7. An investigation by the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division found that the company, headquartered in Mumbai and one of the largest users of H-1B temporary worker […]

U.S. technology employers have lobbied legislators for years for an increase in the cap on H-1B temporary worker visas. Yet, just when it seems their wishes were finally answered, they are anything but thrilled. So what gives? The immigration bill being hammered out right now in the Senate includes a provision to raise the yearly […]

By 2015, there will be more workers who interact with technology, but they’ll be working a whole lot less hours each week, finds a Gartner research report released on May 30. Gartner argues that three of the four traditional pillars of work—the living wage, long-term relationships with loyal employers, and government- or company-provided pensions—have already […]

On the heels of a busy season for H-1B-related activity—a record-breaking depletion of the temporary worker visas, two related pieces of Senate legislation and a published list of the companies that are taking the most advantage of the program—a technology activist on May 23 set out to pan “the myth that Americans can’t cut it […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Over the next five years, business will become so deeply embodied in technology—and technology so embedded in the business—that it will change the way IT is managed by an organization. This was the message delivered by Forrester Research analysts to attendees at the consultancy’s annual IT Forum in Nashville, Tenn. This shift stands to […]

For years, word has circulated of a significant gender gap in the technology workplace, where women are greatly outnumbered by men. The blame is typically placed on low interest on the part of women to pursue computers and engineering, but the actual experience of women working in technology is rarely addressed. A report released May […]

IT employment posted a small increase in April, but has remained essentially flat for the last 11 months, finds the April 2007 IT employment report released on May 9 by the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, a trade association that represents IT staffing firms. April saw an increase of 900 IT workers, leaving the […]

Are IT workers confident about the economy, their jobs and finances? It depends who you ask. New York-based Hudson Talent Management, a recruiting firm, reported May 2 that confidence among IT professionals hit a record high in April, as Hudson’s Index jumped 12.9 points to 122.6, driven by an increase in expected hiring, a decrease […]

From the size of systems to the depth of resources, working at a big IT shop bears little resemblance to smaller counterparts, finds new analysis from Forrester Research. Defined in the Forrester report as organizations with more than 20,000 people, big IT shops share many structural similarities with small ones, yet significant differences were found […]

Admitting that finding, hiring and retaining qualified employees is their biggest operational challenge, nearly half of fast-growth technology CEOs said they are tapping overseas markets for talent. This is a trend they expect to only increase over the next five years, according to 2007 CEO Survey released by Deloitte, a Swiss Verein, May 1. However, […]

Though still down a total of 809,100 jobs, or 12 percent of its work force since 2000, the high-tech industry has made great strides in the past two years towards recovering this loss, finds the Cyberstates 2007 report, released on April 24. According to the report, released for the tenth consecutive year by the AeA, […]

Didn’t use all of your vacation days last year? You’re not alone. More than half of workers don’t use all of their vacation time, finds a survey published on April 18 by Hudson, an employment services firm. The survey suggests that workers are apprehensive about using all of their vacation time allotted in a year, […]