Teleworking growth surges ahead in the UK
News Teleworking statistics were first introduced in the Labour Force Survey in 1997 and have grown by an average of 13 percent a year. More than 2.2 million people work at home online at least one day a week, according to a report in the latest Labour...
[June 6, 2002, 15:19]
Salary outlook remains grim
News But not all the news for the tech labour force this year has been dour. Research firm Meta Group's survey of North American IT managers found that base salaries continued to rise by 5 percent on average and that workers with certain "hot" skills...
[November 7, 2003, 8:10]
UK shortage of IT skills continues
News Redundancy figures from the Labour Force Survey peaked at just over 26,000 between September -- November, dropping to 20,000 in the first quarter of Q1 2002. Employers continue to experience a shortage of core technical skills, according to a...
[May 30, 2002, 10:23]
Paying the true cost of technology
Leader Cheap Chinese labour means that tech company suppliers such as Foxconn use the country to assemble gadgets such as the iPod under questionable conditions. A survey from Greenpeace this week claims that, despite the bad press the Chinese Government...
[June 29, 2006, 13:15]
Computer science turns off students
News A recent study from the Rand thinktank concluded that a labour shortage isn't looming in tech-related fields in the United States. But a survey of Ph.D.granting computer science departments in the United States by the Computer Research Association...
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
Women 'central' to saving UK tech industry
News The report adds that the UK must reduce its reliance on skilled offshore workers and rebuild its domestic IT labour force to serve emerging areas such as analytics, information management, design and innovation.
[April 16, 2008, 8:34]
Statistics mask tough job market
News This implies that some workers in these occupations may have dropped out of the labour force possibly because they are discouraged and have given up looking for work," said Labor Department economist Steve Hipple.
[August 19, 2004, 16:40]
Amazon cuts 1,300 jobs on Q4 losses
News Workers in the Seattle service centre had been attempting to organise a labour union, but Jenson said the closure of the centre was unrelated to the union activity. Analysts expected Amazon to lose 26 cents per share, according to a survey by First...
[January 31, 2001, 7:55]
