Job Woes Plague High Tech
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Researchers say the industry bled 403,000 jobs between March 2001 and April 2004, and the high-tech market continues to shrink.
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Euphemism and allegory have always been common in business &#151; where few get fired, but plenty get "downsized" &#151; but some say the tongue-twisting technology industry has gone too far.
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The digital revolution&#39;s two-way impact on British jobs was felt yesterday when Eastman Kodak announced mass layoffs in Nottingham and Middlesex and B&amp;Q said it had been struggling to find staff in the Midlands.
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Electronic ID cards, surveillance cameras and metal detectors are fixtures in high-rise office buildings, but experts say with thousands whizzing through the revolving doors each day, it's impossible to guarantee workers' safety.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago have confirmed what many high-tech workers have long suspected: The job market for technology experts remains bleak, years after the U.S. recession officially ended in late 2001...
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One of the proverbial back stories of IT operations has always been the battle between the "suits" and the "techies." From the techie point of view, the hapless but disturbingly powerful suits are the business guys who put more thought into picking out hundred-dollar silk ties at Nordstrom than they put into million-dollar IT decisions. Worse, the suits gravitate towards outsourcing and service firms that implement big-dollar solutions. Many techies start on the other end of the spectrum with free open source solutions that reflect a substantial DIY ethic. Will the twain ever meet?
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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India's IT research and outsourcing  industry is facing a skills shortage, a leading industry expert has warned.
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Here's a PC fix-it company that enjoys the challenge of helping panic-stricken technophobes on the verge of a computer crisis.
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Managers with outdated notions are misusing technology to monitor and micromanage employees, according to a new study by the London School of Economics.
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Business and communication skills are important, but many tech pros aren't given such training by employers, according to a report.
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Science & environment: Â· Electronics industry is braced for hard timesÂ· Green theme seeks to counter adverse publicity
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Newer computer chips with multiple processors require dauntingly complex software and programmers are having a hard time keeping up.
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Computer failure points to the challenge of aging equipment.
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The digital revolution is driving exciting discoveries, but it's also eroding human relationships.
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The US information tech sector lost 403,300 jobs between March 2001 and this past April, and the market for tech workers remains bleak, according to a new report.
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A rash of job cuts â-ore than 16,000 layoffs just this week from a handful of companies, including AT&amp;T Corp. â -e created some gloom on the jobs front.