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Yesterday I wrote about growing concerns about IT staff cuts in the coming year, based on a recent Goldman Sachs & Co. survey of IT executives. The number of managers planning to cut internal staff involved with application development or maintenance tasks rose from none in October to 11 percent in last month’s survey.
Not surprisingly, […]

Earlier this month, I cited new data from the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses that indicates IT employment in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 3,907,800 jobs in June, following the addition of 90,000 IT jobs over the previous year.
This seemed to confirm IT’s relative imperviousness to the sagging economy, which I wrote […]

Earlier today, I wrote about a Canadian province’s efforts to promote itself as a destination that welcomes H-1B visa holders and their families.
I also referenced the UK’s attempts to modify its immigration system so that it attracts more highly skilled foreigners and fewer folks that strain public resources such as housing and schools, a concern […]

The United States isn’t the only country struggling with tweaking its immigration process to ensure that highly skilled and/or educated foreigners are allowed to enter the country while not giving them an unfair advantage over native-born residents in competing for jobs, a charge often leveled by opponents of the H-1B visa.
In this post from May, […]

My recent post on Indian services providers establishing operations in the U.S. drew interesting comments from two IT pros, both of whom say they have worked for Indian companies and found them to be good employers.
While conceding my point that foreign investment won’t be as good for the U.S. as domestic investment, the first commentator […]