Labor Day — Layoffs and beyond: Will Sourcing Labor Get Cheaper?
Like most Spend Matters readers in the United States, I’m taking off to spend the day with my family, holding our last official summer barbecue. But that hasn’t stopped me from thinking more closely about a subject that’s been on …
Cloud Takes First Bite At HP
The loss of 9,000 jobs and a $1 billion charge are being described as the cost of HP’s transition to cloud (see all Techmeme coverage). Alas, I fear this is just the downpayment as cloud computing begins an inexorable reshaping…
HR Software: Where is the Post-Recession Market Going to Go?
Can you sell solutions to customers undergoing business contractions? You can if you have the right solution.
Get Ready for the Much Smaller AOL
AOL’s strategy, the latest new one, is to shift away from being an ISP to being a “next generation publishing” entity. Without parsing what it means to be “next generation” when you are doing what Yahoo has been doing for years, this sounds like a reasonable strategy but the anchor that weighs it down is [...]
Inappropriate Performance Review Phrases (We’d All Like to Use)
The toughest performance reviews are the ones for the most troubling of employees. How do you capture their ineptitude, indifference or incompetence in a pithy, to-the-point phrase? Read on…
Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After Microsoft Dumps Don
It’s less than two weeks ago that Microsoft let Don Dodge go, along with 5,000 other employees. He parted gracefully, then soon posted: Getting dumped by Microsoft was a life changing event…for the better. The future is very bright. The opportunities are amazing. Don probably set a World Record in the speed of getting a [...]
