Human Resources

The world of IT work has changed significantly in the past three years. Have the practices of human resource departments kept up? Do the humans in the IT department pay anything more than lip service to the policies and practices of the HR department? Is HR a roadblock on IT

SAP AG's resistance to the establishment of a workers' council will end Thursday when employees of the German business software company will vote on a committee to organize the election of 37 employee representatives.

It's official: Australia's skills shortage is back with IT managers confirming they are working longer hours and struggling to retain staff. While the impact is only starting to emerge in some states, the nation's capital, Canberra, is being hit the hardest.

In response to market pressures in its desktop business, Lenovo Group Ltd. Thursday announced it would lay off 1,000 employees and move its corporate headquarters from Purchase, New York, to Raleigh, North Carolina.

SAP AG has taken steps to form a workers' council comprised of non-union employees in an effort to fend off what the German software vendor views as the harmful influence of unions on its "start-up" company culture.

IT employees are more loyal to their companies than they were three years ago, according to a study by Walker Information, and the dedication of workers in corporate IS departments has increased significantly as well.

At this time of the year, the media chases women issues. Among other things, there usually is an outcry about the lack of women in IT: their absence in boardrooms is notorious, there are few of them in the IT trenches, and even fewer enrolled in technical colleges and universities.

In the commercial whirl that is IT, we get to interact with all sorts of organizations, and despite e-mail we still have to use the telephone to deal with them.