Deborah Perelman

While offshore outsourcing is expected to affect wages and employment in developing countries, it won’t have any sudden negative impact on developed countries’ economies, according to a report released Feb. 22 by the McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of the global management-consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The report “Sizing the Emerging Global Labor Market” attempts […]

Supporting the old adage that who you know often determines where you go, nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of managers said their company looked internally for job candidates before considering applicants from the outside, according to a survey released by Hudson, a staffing company, on Feb. 21. Yet, the survey makes it clear that this is […]

Pay for non-certified IT skills grew 8 percent in 2006, while pay for certified skills showed flat growth, according to the most recent edition of the Hot Technical Skills and Certification Pay Index released Feb. 12 by New Canaan, CT IT workforce research firm Foote Partners. “Though there was an increase in certified pay in […]

While the loss of service jobs to offshoring in the near future will be modest, metropolitan areas with large concentrations of IT and back-office jobs will be harder hit, finds a report released Feb. 12 by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based independent research group. Noting that public fervor and coverage of offshoring has noticeably died […]

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

Calling Vista’s 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 […]

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 […]

Microsoft’s 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 […]

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 survey’s results suggest that a lot of technology professionals will be jumping ship this quarter. Nearly half of IT workers (46 percent) reported […]

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. A study shows professional […]