More - Cynthia Morgan Quotes

New England techies were more likely than others to think the best asset in self-employment is sales ability,

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 Ability

The most effective job-seekers, ... use an average of 6.8 different employment resources when they search for jobs, combining online, networking and recruiter tools.

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With all the talk of telecommuting, ... it's not a hugely widespread practice, even among techies. A survey like this one about telecommuting would naturally draw a high percentage of telecommuters. But we found only 48 percent of respondents saying that they actively telecommute.

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The most highly-paid tech workers, ... also told us they'd be far less willing to work for ex-employers than those making less money.

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 Employer

U.S. tech workers, ... are increasingly nervous about employers' use of temporary non-U.S. citizens in tech jobs. The most anxiety comes from the most vulnerable.

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 Citizens

Respondents in the mountain states -- where self-employed technologists are proportionately rare -- were the most optimistic, regionally.

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Seventy-two percent said they'd use their ex-supervisor as a reference in finding a new job,

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[But the techies surveyed offer the same reasons for not telecommuting that King had mentioned earlier:] In most cases, tech workers don't telecommute because their bosses discourage it or their companies prohibit it, ... Sixty percent of help-desk and support workers don't telecommute at all -- often because they're in the office supporting all the other telecommuters. In some cases, they're working on large, expensive equipment that you just can't take home with you.

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We qualified 700 tech workers who've been laid off within the last three years, ... and used their responses exclusively.

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Even full-time telecommuters often told us they furnish their own office and computer and/or communications equipment,

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