Photo: Family time for former EA worker
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Workers to employers: Show me the time off
Time is more than money for a growing number of American workers, according to a study released Tuesday.
Given a choice between a $5,000 raise and the equivalent in ti...
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IT workers can get the gravy
Information technology workers and financial workers are more likely than other occupation groups to be eligible for bonuses, according to a study released Wednesday from...
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Labor group: Techs tops at courting foreign workers
Technology companies were among the U.S. businesses that most aggressively sought to make foreign workers permanent U.S. residents last year, a labor group charged Wednes...
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Week in review: War over the workers
Hewlett-Packard this week announced plans to ax 14,500 jobs, and Microsoft and Google tussled over a worker.
As part of a strategy to reinvent itself, HP announced tha...
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IT worker confidence rebounds
Tech workers' optimism about the job market improved in June from a low point in May, according to a study released Wednesday. Staffing firm Hudson said its monthly gauge...
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IT worker confidence falls in August
The summer doldrums hit U.S. techies in August, thanks partly to job-loss fears.
Information technology workers' confidence in the job market fell sharply from July, a...
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American workers: Lazy or creative?
The overworked American appears to be fighting back, and Bill Coleman is watching closely.
Coleman is senior vice president of compensation at Salary.com, a role he d...
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Image problems lead to worker shortage in oil industry
DOHA, Qatar--Who wants to work for an oil company? Apparently not too many college students.
Oil and gas companies are in the midst of a personnel crisis, according to...
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Indian worker quits IBM after blog dispute
Former IBM employee Gaurav Sabnis' blog mattered more than his job.
In a post to the blog on Aug. 5, the onetime sales specialist in IBM's server division in Mumbai qu...
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Corporate search needs to heed workers, Google exec says
BOSTON--The corporate search market is held back by the industry's focus on improving the technology rather than pleasing the worker, according to Google's head of enterp...
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Employment data chills Wall Street
Blue-chip and technology stocks were roughed up Thursday. The Nasdaq composite tumbled 74 points to 2,146.15, while the Dow Jones industrial average lost 80 points to fin...
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Employment report fails to spark markets
A key economic report provided a slight boost for stocks, which managed to end the week in positive territory.
The Labor Department reported that 108,000 jobs were los...
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Judge dismisses Amazon employment suit
A lawsuit filed by Amazon.com to prevent a former executive from taking a job with eBay was tossed out of federal court Monday because of jurisdictional issues.
Amazo...
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The future of U.S. tech employment
As the United States weathers a jobless recovery, and technology companies send more and more work overseas, the task facing Wayne Clough has become that much more pressi...
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DivX finds legal employment
DivX, a technology long associated with online movie piracy, has taken
another step toward becoming a format for legal downloads and
video-on-demand services. Broadway ...
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Intel, EEOC to mediate employment disputes
Intel has become the first Silicon Valley company to form a mediation partnership with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an arrangement designed to speed ...
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Short: AOL resumes email blocking
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today overturned a lower court's
preliminary injunction against America
Online. AOL can now resume blocking Cyber Promotions
ju...
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Tech employment slips in January
The new year did not get off to a good start in terms of tech employment, according to a report Friday from the U.S. Department of Labor.
After growing from April to D...
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Short Take: Boca resumes shipping 56 kbps modems
Boca Research announced it has resumed shipments of its 56-kbps modems based on K56flex technology. Shipments of the modems were delayed as Rockwell Semiconductor resolve...
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Shopping.com to resume trading
Shopping.com (IBUY) today announced
plans to resume trading of its shares after a surprise suspension by the Securities and Exchange Commission, while a
brokerage firm ...
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Short Take: Motorola resumes shipping 56-kbps modems
Motorola will resume shipping its
56-kbps modems. The company had halted shipments to alter an algorithm in
the chipset for the purpose of optimizing performance in var...
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Short Take: FutureNet to resume operation
FutureNet says a federal judge has
signed a modified temporary restraining order--part of a tentative
settlement with the Federal Trade
Commission--that will allow it ...
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Short Take: iXL resumes COO search
Just one week after announcing a new chief operating officer, iXL
Enterprises said James Gionfriddo will not join the company after all.
Without disclosing specific det...
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When "Love" hits your "Resume" and it isn't so "Funny
What's in a name? Everything, when it comes to computer
viruses.
Virus writers get poor marks from security experts for their packaging efforts. But occasionally t...
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Investors resume frantic selling
Blue-chip stocks continued their free fall Wednesday as the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 234 points to finish at 9,487. The Nasdaq composite closed off 27 points ...
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Linux company Lineo resumes acquisition spree
Lineo has bolstered its effort to push its version of Linux into set-top boxes and other nontraditional computing devices, announcing a plan to acquire Convergence Integr...
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Fry's resumes talks with Cyberian Outpost
When it comes to acquiring an online store, Fry's Electronics is playing the field.
The California-based electronics retailer has resumed negotiations with Cyberian O...
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Dow off sharply as trading resumes
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The stock markets fell sharply Monday after New York police officers and firefighters rang the opening bell, a sound that hasn't been heard...
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HP, Compaq resume stock buyback
Merger partners Compaq and Hewlett-Packard said Monday that they are resuming programs to buy back their own stock--efforts that had been on hold since the companies bega...
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