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Tech Job Loss Stanched in February
February technology layoffs dropped more than 70 percent from January’s record pace, with more than 33,000 technology jobs displaced. Panasonic announced a cut of 15,000 employees, representing 5 percent of its total work force. “Business conditions have worsened particularly since last October,” Panasonic said in a statement, “due mainly to the rapid appreciation of the…
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Tech Layoffs Top 10 Job Cutting Vendors
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High Unemployment Means Fewer Excuses for Not Filling IT Positions
If you can’t find qualified applicants to fill vacancies as unemployment rates shoot up, you are doing something wrong. It’s that simple. For years, IT vendors and solution providers have bemoaned the lack of qualified applicants with the right skills to fill vacancies at their companies. During good economic times, when job applicants have more…
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SpectorSoft Spector 360 6.2 Offers New Features to Monitor Employee Internet Use
Although SpectorSoft likes to use the innocuous word “monitor” when it comes to Internet access, there are many who would substitute “monitor” with “spy,” and believe that watching another user’s PC activities amounts to an “invasion of privacy.” But let’s be realistic here. Unless that employee owns that PC and the connectivity associated with it,…
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Tech Vendors Shedding Jobs Quickly
Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) handed out more than five dozen pink slips Friday to sales and marketing specialists—including channel chief Sharon Brindley (click here for: “Lexmark Without Channel Leader”) in a sudden restructuring at its Lexington, Ky. headquarters. The Lexmark action is just the latest in a growing string of downsizing among vendors that are laying…
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Avnet Helps Solution Providers Fill Jobs
Even as unemployment has reached a 16-year high, solution providers still find it difficult to fill their open jobs – but one distributor is looking to help ease the burden. Avnet Technology Solutions HP Solutions group is offering a new program designed to help HP solution provider partners recruit qualified talent to fill their open…
