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IT workers lured into contracting
News Lucrative fees have tempted an increasing proportion of UK IT workers into becoming contractors, according to the 2006 Skills Survey carried out by ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com. Rising pay is one of the factors that has lured workers into the...
[June 1, 2006, 17:00]
IT workers feel the layoff fear
News Technology workers' confidence in the job market fell in November, according to a study released on Wednesday. Staffing firm Hudson Global Resources said its monthly employment index for the information technology sector slipped to its lowest level...
[December 2, 2004, 8:20]
IT Workers
Talkback How about employing IT workers over the age of 40. If you loose you job for what ever reason and have passed the age of 40 you are on the bench. When I went to my out placement interview at 52 I was told I would never get another job in IT and I...
[March 26, 2008, 18:28]
IT workers' spirits hit all-time low
News Morale among IT workers has dipped to an all-time low, even though demand for certain skills is rising, according to a new study from Meta Group. The survey did find that IT workers' salaries are at least 20 percent higher than their non-IT...
[June 10, 2004, 9:20]
IT Workers
Talkback How about employing IT workers over the age of 40. If you loose you job for what ever reason and have passed the age of 40 you are on the bench. When I went to my out placement interview at 52 I was told I would never get another job in IT and I...
[March 26, 2008, 18:17]
IT workers in US 'less anxious' about job market
News Information technology workers' confidence in the job market -- and in their ability to hold on to their jobs -- rose again in August, a study found. IT workers revealed less anxiety about becoming unemployed, according to the report, released by...
[September 2, 2004, 9:50]
IT workers' dough isn't rising
News The salaries of rank-and-file technology workers have been stagnating for more than a year, and new evidence shows that paychecks in some tech hubs are actually shrinking. The survey concentrated on tech workers in Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, New...
[October 24, 2001, 11:12]
IT workers grow in optimism
News Information technology workers in the United States are lifting their chins. At least that's the conclusion of a recent study by staffing company Hudson, which found that IT workers had greater confidence in the employment market last month than...
[August 16, 2004, 14:25]
IT workers aren't the Net police
News The same week Sklyarov was jailed, the state of South Carolina added IT workers to the list of professionals required to report to legal authorities if, in the course of attending to a piece of technology, they see-say on a PC hard drive that the...
[August 21, 2001, 11:31]
IT workers get rich in the City
News Top IT workers in the City can now command pay rates of £1,000 per day on the back of this increased IT investment in the financial services sector. Public sector organisations are losing out to booming City institutions in the increasingly fierce...
[June 8, 2006, 9:35]
IT workers willing to get on their bikes for new jobs
News According to a survey released Monday by Techies.com, 56 percent of tech workers said they would "definitely" or "probably" relocate for their next job, and 47 percent said they were more willing to move today than they were a year ago.
[August 7, 2001, 15:12]
Slump in demand for IT workers
News The firm boasts a prestigious list of blue-chip clients, having found full-time and contract workers for the likes of Ericsson, Computer Associates and Compaq. IT recruitment firm MSB International has warned its investors that it is suffering from...
[August 15, 2001, 13:39]
Record rise in overseas IT workers
News As many as 22,000 foreign IT workers were issued with work permits for the UK last year, of whom 85 percent were from India, according to a report by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies (ATSCO), which extracted the figures from the...
[November 21, 2005, 15:30]
Accenture UK job cuts to hit IT workers
News As first reported by ZDNet.co.uk on Sunday, the consulting firm sent out an email late on Friday to thousands of potentially affected workers, telling them that its UK division was to reduce its headcount by between three to four percent.
[October 6, 2008, 16:47]
UK urged to import more skilled IT workers
News The UK must do more to attract foreign skilled workers if homegrown hi-tech knowledge industries are to flourish in an era of increasing globalisation. That's the warning from not-for-profit research organisation The Work Foundation, which has...
[June 2, 2008, 8:55]
UK visas relaxed for Indian IT workers
News Critics have claimed that it is wrong for the government to be putting effort into trying to attract new technology workers, when its unpopular IR35 tax is allegedly driving thousands of IT contractors to move abroad.
[November 1, 2001, 18:04]
HSBC job losses to hit IT workers
News HSBC has confirmed IT workers will be hit by the 1,100 job cuts announced by the bank announced on Friday, as the fallout from the global credit crunch continues. The cuts will affect the bank's global banking and markets operation.
[September 29, 2008, 9:58]
Resignations rise among female IT workers
News Among the 3,538 IT workers surveyed, female managers, on average, earned £45,465 in 2006, around £2,100 less than men. Compared to other sectors, women in IT are only the fifth most likely to resign: in the retail sector 11.7 percent of female...
[September 5, 2007, 8:44]
News Roundup: Sacking shadow haunts IT workers
News Bad news in the mobile phone sector, combined with a US economic slowdown, has meant many of the UK's high-tech workers have been facing redundancy. Evidence shows, however, there is actually an acute shortage of qualified IT workers in the UK, and...
[April 3, 2001, 9:49]
Female IT workers face pay gap of one-fifth
News The majority of female IT workers still believe their wages don't match up to those of male colleagues — despite almost four decades of the UK Equal Pay Act. But the group calculates this using the national gender pay gap and the average salary so...
[October 31, 2008, 11:25]
