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- Can Obama make science cool?
- Give him a Nobel for Science for his science speeches!Please! Obama doesn't even deserve to be your President. All the promises he made have remained just that. What else can this world expect from a politician? And things are clear from his popularity ratings.Obama is good with one thing and...
- Tags: Workforce management, Obama, education
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Should open source hate Apple?
- Apple Doesn't Have Control?Apple created an entirely closed marketplace for music through iTunes and the iPod that no other product has successfully done! The point that one device was more than 60-70% of the market kills innovation, let alone that it was laced with DRM for years and still is...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Who might get health reform passed?
- They're notAnother poll shows that 71% of those surveyed believe there should be a public option. Again, it's of those surveyed - not all Americans. Sort of like your poll.As for the Round Table, I think most large companies are aware of how much their health care benefits...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, public option, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Reports: HP cutting more EDS salaries
- Reports: HP cutting more EDS salariesMeanwhile MAObama insists economy has stabilizedIf only his bite could match his bark.Tend to be Older....!Seems to be a little bit of age discrimination....!This is what happen to me. Climb the corporate ladder and bam things get rough they let you go, hire a raisin...
- Tags: Benefits, Personal finance, Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Taxes, Free trade, salary, job, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- End of tax-free Internet shopping may be near
- End of tax-free Internet shopping may be nearYou have provided a prime exampleof why the so called "Fair Tax" is so grossly unfair and only a "Flat Tax" can be made truly progressive, by placing a large (2 times the annualized minimum wage) personal deduction into the code. RE: End...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, WTF, tax, Vender, tax-free Internet shopping, Internet shopping, sales tax, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?
- Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?Dave's is closerHowever 10 minutes and 5 minutes are a bit of an exaggeration unless you are using 5+ year old equipment. Which most workers do not. The actual number of minutes is probably half that, maybe less. However that still puts...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Shutting Down, Frugal fact, financial fiction, Frugal, computer, PC, financial, Dave
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?
- Is computer science the one smart major in a recession?HealthcareBut, be careful about not acquiring excessive debt while getting the education. The more I think I about it, as long as there's money, accountancy.So, competitive advantage, driven by innovation and not price or service or proximity, has never been more...
- Tags: Strategy, Benefits, Personal finance, BLS, information technology, smart major, IS COMPUTER, IT Staff, recession, IT People, offshoring
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- IBM â€" Move overseas if you want to keep your job
- Certainly, it’s an interesting proposal that IBM has put forward to its former employees. According to a ComputerWorld article, “Some of the workers being let go by IBM have a chance to remain with the company â€" if they're willing to move to Brazil, India, China...
- Tags: U.S., Job, Salary, IBM Corp., Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- This is a Corker: Detroit's Shrinking Three may get help from feds
- This is a Corker: Detroit's Shrinking Three may get help from fedsReadying your champagne, Harry?Is the bottle on ice? Are you ready to laugh and celebrate the loss of jobs in Detroit? Real people, real families, real homes?Why, yes! Big old evil automobile manufacturers, and the henchmen that assemble the...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Manufacturing, Benefits, Strategy, payroll solutions, OK IT, Corker, worker, Shrinking, government, UAW
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- India's outsourcing bubble is burstingIndia's outsourcing bubble is burstingProbably because outsourcing doesn't work.Long overdueIt's about time. It never should have gained traction in the first place. It makes me cringe everytime I hear out political leaders saying how "education" is how we must compete in the global economy....
- Tags: outsourcing, outsource
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Curing the primary care shortage
- Curing the primary care shortageBelling the catNow the trick is to persuade insurance companies to do that. Possibly you have some economic arguments you could make.Of course, they could also act to artificially inflate the supply by offering medical school scholarships to people who commit to general practice for...
- Tags: Insurance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, primary care shortage, care shortage, insurance company, compensation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Infosys: Moving up the consulting food chain
- An Infosys executive reiterated that the offshore outsourcing business is holding up amid an economic slowdown and outlined plans to continue to move up the technology food chain to offer consulting services. Speaking at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York, Ashok Vemuri, head of banking and...
- Tags: Food, Consulting, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Axon Group, Game Plan, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidates
- Campaign 08: H1-B questions for candidatesThis one gets me...[i]Will you seek to increase the H-1B cap so that employers can hire tech workers who are in low supply and high demand in the U.S.?[/i]Mr. Meltzer forgot a word [i]junior[/i], as in [i]junior tech workers[/i]. There is a shortage of...
- Tags: Strategy, Koman, H-1B, H-1B visa, tech worker, job, immigration system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- The curse of the BlackBerry
- The curse of the BlackBerryLabor law separates between hourly and professional workersProfessionals have always been "allowed" to work more hours than they are paid. This is only an issue when the employee is in a wage-grade position (employer can not allow or ignore unpaid labor by someone in a...
- Tags: Handhelds, RIM BlackBerry, curse
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- 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
- Google calls for hike in H-1B visas
- Google calls for hike in H-1B visasThey immigrate because their country sucksThere's plenty of ways to make money in their own country.The Internet is computers talking to computers.very wellHow about lobbying for changing the H1-B process this way:1.increase the application fee since they displace Americans that paid taxes and loans...
- Tags: Benefits, Google Inc., H-1B, information technology, Microsoft Windows, salary, hike, application fee
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- 21,400 IT jobs added in California in 2006, 5.9 mln Americans were employed by tech
- California’s high-tech industry added 21,400 net jobs - a 2% increase - for a tech industry total of 940,700 in 2006, the most current state data available. Leading the way in job creation were the computer systems design and related services sector (+12,600 jobs) and the engineering services sector (+6,100...
- Tags: Job, Information Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, AM
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- iPhone hardware wishlist
- iPhone hardware wishlistIf you copy comments..The first one, real GPS not the fake one like in N95, as far as I know (I've got one), it's got real GPS, like it contains a GPS chip etc. That the implementation is somewhat strange telephone needs to be open is all together...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple iPhone, hardware, radio, GPS, phone, HD radio
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Average IT worker earned $32.39 an hour in October 2007
- Hourly wages for highly-skilled technology professionals reached an all-time high during Q4 2007. And though growth slowed sequentially at the end of the year, it still remained ahead of 2006, according to Yoh Index of Technology Wages. The average hourly wage for high-impact IT workers was recorded at $32.39 during...
- Tags: Salary, Information Technology Worker, Benefits, Human Resources, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Maintaining a 25% profit margin in this crazy world of globalization
- I wanted to share some interesting discussion earlier last year between BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm and Tata Consultancy Services' TCS CFO S. Mahalingham, which reveals some fascinating insight into how TCS has managed to maintain profit margins at the 25% level, despite intense pressures from wage inflation, employee attrition, aggressive competition...
- Tags: Card, India, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Outsourcing Company, Supplier, Globalization, Profit Margin, S. Mahalingham, Outsourcing, Professional Development, Channel Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Career, Marketing, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
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