Search results for query: *

The implication that a private sector job with the same salary and a '401k plan' is comparable to the lost govt job is deceptive. One reason people went for govt jobs (despite the rep for lower pay) was that they got a pension. A pension that was a guaranteed amount of money per year at...

You are certainly correct about the overhead...a few weeks into this oddshoring experiment, we company analysts pointed out that the specs required by the Indian programmers were at such a detailed level (pseudo code), that it took many times longer to write them than it would to do a higher...

Well, the company I work for is doing the outsource-to-india thing right now for new development, and is finding that with lower costs come slower speed. The native US techie from the ERP vendor can do in half a day what it takes one of these cheaper folks from India to do in 5 to 7 days. This...

Hi, What I meant by 2 activities is... If I put 2 diagrams in one activity: 1. the diagram with the step>event>worklist/email 2. the dagram showing the navigational steps that the user should go through to respond to the worklist or email there were problems. If numbers 1. and 2. above were...

Has anyone else read the artice with the above name, in the September issue of Business 2.0 magazine? It's the first + thing about tech emplyment I've read in a while... ChicagoAnalyst

Hi, Do you have both the navigational map and the process map (the map showing the trigger and worklist) in the same activity? I had some similar issues that were solved when I seperated the maps into two different activities. That, and making sure the path and step numbers were set up...

We are in the process of installing PS 8.8 with the Enterprise Portal, and Portal Pack. I understand that installing the language component and updating the Installation table will allow the field labels on pages to display in languages other than English (we need French and Spanish). I hear...

I don't agree - I think a huge percentage of shareholders don't bother to vote their shares at all, giving those that do an unusual impact. I worked for a company whose board recommended eliminating a poison-pill generous employee severance plan in cases of buyout, about a year before before our...

In our organization, we use a low-tech solution. A user who has forgotten their PS password must email a PS Security administrator, who resets it to a new password and informs the user. The user then goes into PS (using vanilla access through the PeopleTools navigation) and resets it to...

* WHERE WOULD WE STRIKE? The way the trends are moving now, a small handful of IT Outsourcing companies control a huge part of our industry. These outsourcers are also the source of a huge part of the abuse. Start the union with the IT professionals of EDS, CSC, etc. *VOTING OUR PROXIES to...

I agree with part of what Dave is saying - one option I have seen used is for managers to give discretionary comp time under the table, not recorded anywhere, and without any official approval. It solved the problem for all. I think that upper management is often afraid of a cut and dry defined...

It sounds to me like (if you sign this agreement) you had better have tight control over what this broker does with your resume. Otherwise, one mass mailing (or email) of your resume to 4000 employers would mean that you couldn't work for any of them without paying this broker, even if the mass...

Hi, You don't say how large your survey population is, but our company uses a CHEAP and easy to use tool called Survey Monkey (see www.surveymonkey.com). I was amazed at the functionality we get for the price; we used to spend a lot of staff time administering and compiling the results of...

It sounds like many of us are stuck at the same point; my company has been trying to solve single signon for a year now. We have rolled out PS Employee Self Service, and are using it this year for open enrollment. We want to sync PS signon, Novell signon, and signon to our broader intranet...

In answer to the question of what good a union could do for IS folks...I'm currently at an employer who has announced that they intend to outsource all IS employees company-wide (many thousands of employees). Of the outsourcing company candidates, a couple from India are at the top of the list...