Deborah Rothberg

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 other’s roles to a distrust of the other’s practices, and is to blame for an assortment of […]

The majority of U.S. workers want it all, saying that splitting their time between home and the office is the ideal work arrangement, according to the results of a productivity survey released July 19 by the Hudson Employment Index, a New York-based staffing solutions firm. Fifty-nine percent of the 1,911 respondents believed that telecommuting at […]

Since its debut in 2005, over 1,200 individuals have achieved IT Architect Certification, the Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability, said on July 18 at its IT Architecture Practitioners Conference in Miami. The ITAC was developed by the Open Group in response to what it perceived as […]

Showing a 26 percent reduction in job cuts, the second quarter of 2006 was a great one for the tech sector, according to a report issued July 13 by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based global outplacement consultancy. The number of Q2 job cuts was the lowest in nearly six years, according to the report. […]

According to a gender pay survey released July 12, 35 percent of female workers say that they are paid less than men in their workplaces with similar experience and qualifications. This number has grown 4 percent since the company’s 2003 “Men and Women at Work” study. Younger female workers reported fewer instances of pay disparity […]

Citigroup announced plans on July 10 to build a Information Technology and Consumer Innovation Training Center in Blue Ash, Ohio, that it said will eventually employ up to 1,000 IT professionals. The company intends to hire 400 tech professionals by the time the center opens in October of this year, and hopes to be up […]

For the fourth month in a row, technology professionals have felt more confident in their jobs than the U.S. workforce at large, according to the Hudson Employment Index for IT Workers released July 5. With a base score of 100, the IT index came in at 108.2, compared with the national index of 102.4. The […]

San Jose and Silicon Valley remain California’s strongest technology epicenter, drawing the highest salaries and employing the most tech workers, according to the California Cybercities 2006 report, released June 27 by the AeA, a tech industry trade association. San Jose and Silicon Valley employed 214,900 tech industry workers in 2004 and paid them an annual […]

It was only a few years ago that parents were cautioning their children not to set off into technology careers; the recession after the boom years shattered the sheen on the field, which no longer seemed a safe place to invest one’s future. Economists, politicians and businesses alike began fretting over an anticipated tech “brain […]

It was only a few years ago that parents were cautioning their children not to set off into technology careers; the recession after the boom years shattered the sheen on the field, which no longer seemed a safe place to invest one’s future. Economists, politicians and businesses alike began fretting over an anticipated tech “brain […]