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- Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"
- The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?
- Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?will stop if...I believe that users will stop volunteering their time and knowledge if their work will cause their own job losses. No one wants to dig their own grave, unless they are not aware that it's going to be theirs.RE: Will social...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Globalization's discontents
- Globalization's discontentsOpinion is dictated by costThe last sentence in John's post pretty much says it all. With economies in third world countries heating up and the ability to market one's skills across the world becoming a reality, I am very excited about the new frontiers opening up. Also,...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- US unemployment is at 4.7%
- US unemployment level fell to 4.7% in January 2005 after staying at 5.0% for three years or so. Employment is rising but hours have been stuck at just under 33.8 a week, on average, for more than three years. And unemployment among blacks, which fell more last month than for...
- Blog posts 2006-02-04
- UK unemployment hits 30-year-low
- The total number of people unemployment fell by 13,400 from the previous month to 892,100, the first time it has slipped below the 900,000 level since September 1975, the National Statistics office said. The fall was greater than analysts' expectations of a decline of 5,000, and was the largest since...
- Blog posts 2004-02-11
- Save Billions With Auto-ID
- Unemployment is up, the economy is still down, and manufacturers are searching for any way to save a nickel here, a dime there. Auto-ID can do more than that. According to a recent study by Accenture, a leading management consulting and technology services company, Auto-ID technologies could save manufacturers and...
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- OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?
- Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic].....Sounds similar to the other candidates too... ]:)Simplified version/* Sarah's playbook */repeat {__receivequestion; __if (IMayHaveAClueAboutquestion)__{____reciteMyScripts;__}__else __{____winkAtCamera;____ignorequestion;____printf("... but I'd like to focus on my own topics.");____dumpIrrelevantAnswers;__}} until (hostLeavesMeOffHook)RE: Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]Spot on!BidenIn the case of Biden he just makes stuff up. Facts never...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind
- By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?
- Could royalty rate hike force Apple to reconsider variable pricing?I hope Apple stands pat.Apple makes money on the players, not so much the music. The can update the firmware to support Microsoft's or other vendors DRM, if needed, and keep selling them.We can live without iTunes. I use...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Apple: Is it really recession proof?
- Apple: Is it really recession proof?One thing to keep in mindThe analyst's employer, Morgan Stanley, just had to sell 21% of itself to get needed cash. In other words, they f--ked up bigtime.Other Wall Street "genius" firms include bankrupt Lehman and forced sale Merrill Lynch.Back in the days of...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog
- An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration
- HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integrationbest move so farThis is how we are going to keep America competitive and eliminate the pork that goes to useless employees rather than the stockholders.You missed the restocking part ...About half of the positions will be re-filled, just not...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- 2 million new green jobs? Propaganda, certainly, but a good topic for debate nonetheless
- The Natural Resources Defense Council and affiliated lobbying groups is urging lawmakers to bone up on a new report from the Political Economy Research Institute PERI that suggests ideas for a $100 billion, two-year economic stimulus program that it believes could create up to 2 million new jobs. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- The Importance of Dissent
- Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Is open source labor or management?
- Is open source labor or management?WOW, do you really understand open source?Open source is neither, at best it flattens the cost of operations, and creates a stable IT software environment that benefits workers more productivity and management lowers costs. Like any other IT function, bad decisions, bad management, bad out...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- 62% of salaried Americans happy with their medical and retirement benefits
- When asked whether this is a bad time to find a quality job, 65% of Americans said it was, matching the level of the 2001 recession, according to Rutgers University’s John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. With unemployment at 5.7%, the highest level since 2004, and weekly unemployment claims...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
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