10 most difficult IT jobs for employers to fill
By: Sharon Florentine Most difficult IT jobs for employers to fill The breakneck pace of technological innovation in an era of digital transformation has made it difficult for companies to find and land talent with the right mix of cutting-edge skills and experience. But even harder to find are candidates with the soft skills and […]
Google, LinkedIn leaders on tech’s responsibility for lost jobs
By: Matt Kapko The pressing issue of modern technology’s negative impact on jobs was largely ignored during the 2016 presidential election, according to California’s Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who spoke this week at the Code Enterprise conference. Today’s society has deficiencies in education and regulation, and it lacks the collective mindset necessary to transform tech […]
Trump presidency a step back for diversity in America
By: Sharone Florentine The country’s new president-elect wants to deport a vast number of Hispanic people, wants to block Muslims from entering the country, has promised to roll back protections for LGBTQ people, and normalizes discrimination, harassment and sexual assault. Donald Trump also promised to loosen libel laws and strip the media of any power […]
Docker, machine learning are top tech trends for 2017
By: Paul Krill With 2017 fast approaching, technology trends that will keep gathering steam in the new year range from augmented and virtual reality to machine intelligence, Docker, and microservices, according to technology consulting firm ThoughtWorks. In its semiannual Technology Radar report published Monday, ThoughtWorks calls out four IT themes growing in prominence: Virtual reality […]
Not Your Mother’s Artificial Intelligence
Back in the days when “Bubbles,” the liquid-cooled Cray 2, was the fastest supercomputer in the world and before LISP was the programming language of choice in Marvin Minsky’s new AI Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) had lofty goals. They believed that AI would eventually give machines […]
Twitter’s impact on 2016 presidential election is unmistakable
By: Matt Kapko Twitter has played an outsized role in a 2016 presidential election that continues to test the electorate. Despite Twitter’s ongoing business problems, the ability of a single tweet to shape political conversation and drive media coverage has never been greater. A marked contrast exists between Twitter’s business acumen (or lack thereof) and […]
Infosys’ U.S. workforce is mostly South Asian and no accident, plaintiffs allege
By: Patrick Thibodeau The composition of Infosys’ U.S. workforce is too lopsided — overwhelmingly South Asian — to be an accident, allege the plaintiffs in a discrimination lawsuit. The plaintiffs, four IT workers from around the U.S., brought their discrimination lawsuit against the India-based IT services giant in 2013. This week, they filed a motion […]
SAP Announces New Benefits for Transgender Employees
A very small percentage of SAP employees are about to get some big, new perks. Starting in 2017, the enterprise software giant will offer its North America-based workers extended “transgender benefits.” What exactly does that mean? Well, SAP already offered several basic medical benefits to transgender employees, including mental health counseling for those in transition […]
New Zealand Government Takes HR to the Cloud with SAP SuccessFactors Solutions
SAP New Zealand today announced that the New Zealand Government has signed an ICT Common Capability Cloud Human Resources Information System (HRIS) Agreement. Through the agreement – between SAP and the Department of Internal Affairs(DIA) – SAP now supplies a cloud-based HRIS via the SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) Suite to automate HR processes […]
Thanks to Facebook, voter registrations surge
By: Sharon Gaudin Social media is more than posts of cat videos and political rants as Facebook showed by getting hundreds of thousands of people to register to vote this fall. “Facebook has demonstrated the power of social media to engage more people to register to vote, helping thousands take a big step to casting […]