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- Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?
- Sadly, we're talking about the other kind of pink slip.I know what you're probably thinking: What a ridiculous question. There is no gentle way to hand out pink slip. There is no way to be told that "your services are no longer needed" but "here is the number to our...
- Tags: Pink Slip, Layoff, Salary, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Editor salaries increased 15.2% in 2008
- Although companies have devoted nearly the same number of staff to custom publishing initiatives in 2005-2008, the trend is up 51% since 2000, according to Custom Publishing Council CPC. Communication and editorial titles had compensation increases of 3.4% and 15.2%, respectively, while design titles dropped 3.7%. There was an overall...
- Tags: Salary, Title, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Tony Fadell to get $300k consultant salary
- My colleague David Morgenstern today noted that the number of employees at Apple rose about 50 percent during the past year, according to the company's 10K report setteB.IT English translation also points out some other items of interest from the SEC-mandated Form 10-K: Tony...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Salary, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Linux versus Windows: another fine Microsoft TCO Analysis
- Linux versus Windows: another fine Microsoft TCO AnalysisWhen you factor in the future value ..... of money Windows will cost you more even if all of the assumptions about TOC are correct. With Windows you have to expense the funds during the initial purchase, funds that would have been diverted...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 2000, Benefits, OPEN SOURCE, Apache/Tomcat, analysis, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Corp., salary, Microsoft TCO Analysis, Microsoft TCO, Linux-versus-Windows, server
- Discussion threads 2008-10-18
- Linux versus Windows: another fine Microsoft TCO Analysis
- When you're hired to prove an untruth, success depends on confusing the reader and this report does that in spades - a beautiful example of the consulting art. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Analysis, Outsourcing, Linux, Microsoft Windows, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy, Information Technology, IT Professional, TCO, Salary, Computer, Roi/Tco, UNIX, Open Source, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Blog posts 2008-10-18
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatmentWell, Duh.....Anyone working in the tech field can provide many examples of this activity. The financial services company where I work is almost completely outsourced to Indian vendor company workers, over here on H-1B's. Additionally, many of us here have trained the very people...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Litigation, Outsourcing, H-1B, worker mistreatment, mistreatment, job, worker, fraud
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Highest-paid US public company executives
- Highest-paid US public company executivesHas what to do with the price of peas in China?This is not tech news. Any of us that want to know this can read Forbes or look this up ourselves on sec dot gov. Get going on some actual tech journalism, please!RE: Highest-paid...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Highest-paid, capitalism, salary
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Oh, really? Report says techies don't care much about salary.
- Oh, really? Report says techies don't care much about salary.Location mattersIt really depends on who you ask and where these techies are. I bet techies working in NYC are either after high pressure environment or $$$, whereas techies working in Hawaii would be more interested in *surfing*...There's a good deal...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Happiness, salary, job
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Oh, really? Report says techies don't care much about salary.
- According to a new report and an unscientific polling of a handful of techies, it's not salary or bonuses that cause IT pros to leave their jobs, but a lack of perks and new technical challenges. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Job, Techie, Training, Salary, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- A review of job openings at major American employers shows that there is no "Unix salary premium" but there is a 15% or so skills premium reflecting the typical Unix sysadmin's ability to fill other roles - like those of the DBA or Windows administrator - without, as it were,...
- Tags: System Administrator, Wintel, Data-processing, Salary, Payscale, Outliers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?
- A lower return on investment for undergraduate degrees is manifesting itself in the forms of salary stagnation and underemployment. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Job, Wall Street Journal, Degree, Salary, College Degree, Payroll Solutions, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Reports: You should have no trouble finding IT work
- Reports: You should have no trouble finding IT workIgnores the effect of the H-1B program.Any employment gains have been sucked up by the H-1B and L-1 programs long ago.. (over a million plus in the last six years.Stagnant wages while inflation is runing amok, increased unpaid overtime, layoffs.. all are...
- Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, job, job posting, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Small business salaries down 0.4% in June 2008
- In June 2008, average annualized small-business salaries dropped by 0.4% to $32,386.11, according to SurePayroll. by AM
- Tags: Small Business, Salary, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs youAnd they'll pay almost a plumbers wagesSo off we go, let's all rush to those jobs ....RE: Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you"Most computer science students worldwide, will have some idea about security..."So the problem is neither lack of knowledge nor...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, forensic computer, computer, computer criminal, country need, salary
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Timesheet Calculator 2008 (zip)
- Timesheet Calculator by The IT Mill brings you an easy to use calculator that even those with no computer experience what-so-ever can pick up and use without any problems. You put in your start time, start of lunch, end of lunch, end of day and it calculates how many hours...
- Tags: Hour, Information Technology, Salary, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-26
- Gerontologists see something worse than death
- Gerontologists see something worse than deaththe worst of allis being poor and unable to work for a decent wage.When the retirement age is raised to the highest in the world, who would hire some cripple and sick men or women on a decent wage.It appears that in order to 'manage'...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Benefits, payroll solutions, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Strom Thurmond, decent wage, retirement age, Gerontologists, salary, John Glenn
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- See your potential future salaries
- See your potential future salariesHere @ MexicoInteresting post!Here at Mexico an average employed software developer earns between 12K-23K USD.And there is a lot developers out there working in US companies.Become an astronaut ...I haven't checked the website mentioned, but the basic logic shown in the blog article is flawed. ...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Web site development, future salary, salary
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- See your potential future salaries
- This makes life interesting - knowing what you could be earning in a few years time once you've got your degree. The idea behind this website is other than extreme nosiness available information on who is earning what, at which company. It's not as specific to the point you can...
- Tags: Salary, Computer, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Productivity, Human Resources, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
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