Kachina Shaw

Top Tech Talent Search Trends Tech firms and large firms with substantial IT departments have long tried to attract the best technical talent by offering special perks. Companies like Apple and Google are normally cited as among the best examples of how these perks can be carefully planned and executed. And building on the one-size-fits-most […]

LinkedIn, in an effort to get further up in your business, so to speak, has designated November 7 as Bring In Your Parents Day. As if Bring Your Child to Work Day wasn’t bad enough, now our coworkers may be making arrangements for the parental units to come in and see just how tiny our […]

Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance 2013 While it has the spotlight on it for its upcoming monster IPO, Twitter could bring the entire Silicon Valley culture forward several steps when it comes to gender diversity in tech leadership positions, says Vivek Wadhwa, a Fellow at Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, […]

Prompting readers at The Wall Street Journal to comment that he may be making the situation more precarious, Steven VanRoekel, U.S. CIO, said this week that he is worried about the U.S. federal government shutdown’s effect on cyber security within the government’s systems. VanRoekel describes a multi-layered series of consequences, in which he is unable […]

It’s a quirk of modern work life that, often, information and advice delivered by a third party is accepted and absorbed much more readily than the same info delivered by a plain-old colleague. It’s just more sticky, somehow, coming from outside the bubble. Organized efforts like National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) can be an […]

Survey Finds IT Pros Proud of Career Despite Tradeoffs An ambitious study carried out earlier this year by McKinsey & Company and Chegg, Inc. sought to uncover the “Voice of the Graduate” on the challenges facing higher education in the United States. While the overall tone of the results skews toward the negative, a few […]

One of the more popular work culture topics we’ve ever covered here at IT Business is email etiquette. Everyone has a story or two about how a coworker or associate offended them highly – and usually another story about how they embarrassed themselves doing some equally dumb thing over email. (Confession: I once sent a […]

Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance 2013 As the thinking on the most effective methods of employee recognition evolves, technology may begin to play a larger part. Managers and HR are now considering the potential of social communications in employee recognition programs. But the downsides must be thought out, as well. A new survey of […]

In a recent study, The Ponemon Institute looked at an emerging strategy for mitigating cyber security risks: insurance policies. Managing Cyber Security as a Business Risk: Cyber Insurance in the Digital Age (available for download with registration) found that 31 percent of its sample of risk managers and executives in a range of small and […]

Ageism is alive and well in Silicon Valley. SFGate.com last month collected first-hand descriptions from readers of what it’s like out there in the area’s employment realm when you are (gasp) over 40. Or maybe it’s over 30. Readers told SFGate.com that though they are well aware that their employed days are numbered, or just […]

Ten Fastest Growing States for IT Jobs New jobs in data processing, hosting and related services are being created at a furious pace, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a look at hiring efforts leads Dice.com to believe that cloud services providers are playing a significant factor in that growth. What keywords are […]

A recent spate of investigations and charges in global anti-bribery cases are bringing the need for specific anti-bribery policies and programs front of mind for executives. A unit of Deutsche Bank AG is under investigation in Japan for alleged compliance violations involving entertainment spending with clients. Deutsche Bank is also conducting an “internal investigation,” according […]