The days of ever-fatter paycheques for IT experts are over, according to a new study. U.S. starting salaries in the industry are expected to increase on average by just 0.1 per cent in 2002, compared to the 8.4 per cent rise forecast this time last year, said RHI Consulting Inc. in a statement Thursday.
Call it what you will: a downturn, a recession, a slowdown, an economic slump. Whatever the term, we are smack dab in the middle of it and although there are many who will take comfort in the promised proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, we have yet to see it
Having trouble making your words make sense to non-techies? You're not alone. According to RHI Consulting, a division of Robert Half International Inc., Canadian CIOs rate "communication" as their number one problem in the workplace. In a survey, entitled Was it something I said?, 44 percent of 270 respondents bemoaned the gap between high-tech jargon and the end user's understanding.