Most workers want more employer-sponsored health benefits and are willing to pay for them, according to a study of 255 large employers and 10,000 employees by Watson Wyatt & Co., a Washington-based human resources consulting firm.
Just about every major government technology issue crosses the desk of Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va. As the chairman of the Government Reform subcommittee on technology and procurement policy, Davis this year has examined legislation and held hearings related to federal technology policy, outsourcing, government procurement, work-force development, federal telecom services and electronic government.
Technology companies and their employees are discovering the benefits of sabbatical programs. Gartner Inc.'s Tim Ogden, second from left, spent his first sabbatical in Ethiopia last year, volunteering with a relief organization.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md., hired Frederic Henney Jr. as director of communications and community relations for its Electronics & Surveillance-Undersea Systems.
The high-tech industry boasts the most dog-friendly employers, according to DogFriendly.com, a Placerville, Calif., Web site that lists 260 canine-compatible employers in 40 states. DogFriendly.com also features Fido-friendly hotels and retail establishments.
Accenture consultant Samir Parikh got an unexpected opportunity this summer. Thanks to the sabbatical program his employer announced last month, Parikh got to design his work life for a year.
Before leaving for a 10-day vacation in Hawaii with her husband and two young daughters, Charlene Wheeless wrestled daily with the question: Should she take her laptop computer or leave it at home?
Women aren't finding the high-tech industry as friendly as they thought it would be. "We thought we would find that the tech industry was much more open, that anyone could enter and be successful and move up quickly, and we'd find women in leadership positions. Unfortunately, from what we heard, that's not the case," said Sue Molina, tax partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP of New York and national director of the company's Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women.
U.S. companies expect a slower pace of hiring for information technology workers in the third quarter of 2001, compared to earlier this year, according to a study released June 29 by RHI Consulting.
Update.com, a Vienna, Austria-based vendor of customer relationship management (CRM) software, named Gerhard Schuberth as its new chief executive officer.
