Patrick Thibodeau

Articles by Patrick Thibodeau

New user group aims to take on the super vendors

Its 70 members aren't focused on any one technology, and come from a wide range of industries. Initial members include automaker BMW, JPMorgan Chase and energy company Shell

Five reasons legislation to limit outsourcing is bad

With U.S. Congress focusing on mid-term election campaigns, outsourcing is a hot topic. Outsourcers can adapt to laws looking to cut H-1B use; trade and exports are key economic issues for state, federal leaders

IT staffing firms lose H-1B lawsuit

Three small firms that rely on H-1B visa holders for most of their employees sought a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. citizenship department from enforcing it. With defeat, however, may come some clarification

U.S. IT employers slowly hiring back after layoffs

In the first six months of this year, tech employers added 30,200 jobs to their payrolls after shedding 143,000 jobs over the same period last year

U.S. tech works with ‘pent-up animosity’ plan to bolt

Polling firm Harris Interactive surveyed 4,367 employed tech workers, including 241 in IT operations, in the second quarter of 2010 and found many of them are job-hunting

IT job satisfaction in a rut

A few days before flight attendant Steven Slater released a rear chute and exited his career with a couple of cans of beer in hand, an organization of IBM users held an informal discussion entitled "The Mythical 40-Hour Week"rn

A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career

Kristine Harper, 27, grew up getting inside knowledge about mainframe computers -- and their career potential. Now she's putting that knowledge to use

Next step for Wikileaks: Crowdsourcing classified data

The release by Wikileaks of more than 90,000 documents about military operations in Afghanistan may just be the start of problems for the U.S. government

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