temporary worker

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Who's working at Apple?

The number of employees at Apple rose about 50 percent during the past year, according to the company's 10K report. And a look at Cupertino's job postings boards showed slim pickings. by David Morgenstern

Tags: Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, David Morgenstern, Job, Apple Macintosh, Temporary Worker, E-learning, Training And Certification, Desktops, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-05

World's biggest compute job... to be done by pen and paper

The US Census Bureau, which is charged with counting and analyzing the nation's 300 million residents in 2010, has just admitted that its technology is not ready for the job. And what was originally touted to be the first "high-tech count in the nation's history" will still be a highly...

Tags: Job, CNBC, Bureau, Temporary Worker, Handheld Computer, Computer, Handhelds, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Additional Resources

Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V

Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of IT. While virtualization can offer a wide range of IT benefits, running multiple applications on each physical server can place availability at risk. If...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Virtualization, Information Technology, Dell EqualLogic, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-11-04

McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market

Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights

Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rightsSteve alone DOES make Apple the company it isWhat would Apple be like without Steve Jobs? We don't have to guess. We already know because Apple was without Steve Jobs for many years. If Jobs hadn't returned Apple would have disappeared...

Tags: Leadership, job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., liver transplant, transplant

Discussion threads 2009-06-20

H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about

H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutDICK DURBINYou link to his page right in that top paragraph... yet you still can't get his name right?RE: H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutThere are thousands of highly skilled Americans that are unemployed that are willing to take...

Tags: Obama, H-1B, H-1B legislation, worker

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is real

IT offshoring is exaggerated and the IT labor shortage is realAs of September...... a sudden decrease in interest in hiring people is understandable. That's when many people decided to believe what they heard and the economy tanked.There's a question to what degree the banking crisis had to spread to...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Problem 4, Problem 2, Problem 1, STEM worker, job, information technology, IT Labor Shortage, IT Offshoring

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

I secretly always wanted to see capitalism collapse . . .

I secretly always wanted to see capitalism collapse . . .So if you believe that...You putting all your money into gold? Bought a farm so you can grow your own food and spin your own cloth while the depression lasts? Put your money where your mouth is.RE: I secretly always...

Tags: Benefits, Investment, capitalism

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Should bosses kill the office and let everyone telecommute?

Should bosses kill the office and let everyone telecommute?Office cubicles suck and should be banned by the Geneva convention...But what possible reason would corporations have for saving the planet? Think about it, if most IT sector people stayed at home and worked the savings would be minimum but if...

Tags: telecommuting

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

When the going gets tough, will the tough go to Web 2.0?

When the going gets tough, will the tough go to Web 2.0?Bullhockey."...many of today's workers and professionals will not resign themselves to the powerlessness of the unemployment line."And many exponentially more will be forced to do just that.RE: When the going gets toughZDNet is the FOX 'News' of the Internet...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

America's blocked labor policies

America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...

Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Dell: Still a work in progress; Sees conservative IT spending

Dell: Still a work in progress; Sees conservative IT spendingVista alone was not quite enough.The combined total of notebooks and desktops gained $1 billion, from $8.7 billion to $9.7 billion. That's an increase of 11% on 60% of the company's revenues.Not bad. If the Vista gains could have...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, legacy hardware, Panda, computer, job, IT-spending

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

Attracting high-skilled immigrants

Attracting high-skilled immigrantsfunnyWhen u say "We need to be prepared to be an active competitor in a global marketplace" about USA, it is more funny from Europe.I agreeBut I'm actually in favor of abolishing H1-B outright and instead making it easier to get a green card.CorrectionsYou wrote:H1-B visas are pegged...

Tags: H-1B visa, H-1B, immigrant

Discussion threads 2007-11-08

British standards body mum on OOXML vote

British standards body mum on OOXML voteOnce again dirty money will preveilOnce again MS try to hide there dirty money.Here some in Sweden here some else where ..... I always find hilarious that when MS do some dirty stuff it always end up because of the "confusion" or...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Management, BSI, Microsoft Corp., permatemp, OOXML, British Standard, Siemens AG

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

Advanced File Worker 2.32 (Windows)

Advanced File Worker is a powerful file management, backup and rename utility. You can perform any number of file operations by pressing only one button. Make your work faster and faultless. Program options give the user the possibility to perform various kinds of file operations: clean up temporary files from...

Tags: Worker, Advanced File Worker, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-08-28

Survey finds increasing uncertainty over offshoring

Survey finds increasing uncertainty over offshoringUnrealistic view of "thinking part of job""However, according to The Work Foundation report, Indian workers don't see things that way. "Indian business insiders see future offshore outsourcing as an advantage for Europe, enabling it to focus on the 'thinking part of the job,' providing opportunities...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, offshoring, Survey find, outsourcing, survey

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Program With XML for DB2, Part 2: Leverage Database Support for XML in Your Application Architecture

XML's status in databases has changed in the last couple of years from a temporary worker to that of a first class citizen. No longer does it need to morph its identity in order to fit into the relational world. It proudly maintains its hierarchical heritage, even while exploiting the...

Tags: IBM DB2, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-08-02

Lou Dobbs and illegal immigration

Lou Dobbs and illegal immigrationLou Dobbs and Immigration.Whist I agree that the current illegal imigrant population cannot and should not be "sent back" I do believe that they should be "legitimized" as soon as possible. Back to the techy side. I am aware of numerous individuals from other countries working...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, congress/President, Lou Dobbs, H1B Visas, voter

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

The artificial nature of national borders

The artificial nature of national bordersHistorical contextThe rise of restrictions is directly related to the rise of unions. As they gained strength, they used that strength politically to create protections for their members. That political strength also elected more statist governments that created various bureaucracies to protect workers....

Tags: Government, permit, worker

Discussion threads 2007-03-06

The artificial nature of national borders

A recent article that popped up on Digg on a mildly unrelated topic (essentially, it discusses fears of a Nafta superhighway stretching from Canada into Mexico) got me thinking about a subject that, at least nominally, affects IT workers. Why do we as humans restrict to the level we do...

Tags: Economic Policy, General, Outsourcing

Blog posts 2007-03-06