Employees at Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Data & Management Services division in King of Prussia, Pa., start planning the annual Friend's Christmas project months ahead of time.
PeopleSoft Inc. named Kevin Horigan as its new vice president and general manger for education and government sales. He has experience in building business units for education and government, telecommunications and financial services from working for Oracle Corp. and MicroStrategy Inc.
Vice president and general manager, federal sector for PeopleSoft Inc. "I am responsible for product sales, service and support for all U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Defense."
The Womens Executive Network, the first Web-based recruitment and career development company to focus on women, won a best startup award from the journal Women's Business this fall.
Suppose a trusted employee leaves the company. She has had access to proprietary source code, programming techniques and plans for product improvements. The employee has not had access to marketing plans.
When Karen Sansone began telecommuting eight years ago, working outside the office wasn't widespread. Now, technology and changing workplace cultures have made it commonplace.
Nov. 27-30 "Partnerships for Learning in the New Millennium" is the theme of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference to be held at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. It is sponsored by the <b>National Training Systems Association</b>. Call Barbara McDaniel (703) 247-2569, fax: (703) 243-1659 or e-mail bmcdaniel@ndia.org.
Of the 3.7 million U.S. women who gave birth between July 1997 and June 1998, a record high of 59 percent were working, almost double the 31 percent participation rate of 1976, according to a report released late last month by the Census Bureau.
After a 22-hour flight that took him across the international date line, Stephen Coaker arrived Sept. 22 in Dili, East Timor, a shell of a city on the other side of the world. About 80 percent of Dili, and much of the island territory, was destroyed in a multiyear conflict over East Timor's independence from Indonesia.
Washington-area information technology companies Oct. 11 stretched their recruiting arms two hours north to Philadelphia, employing a novel strategy to lure fresh faces south.
In today's fiercely competitive labor market, cash is key to attracting skilled technical employees, human resources managers and business experts agree. But spiraling salaries and mammoth bonuses don't bind workers to their employers.
