" ... Big companies in Silicon Valley have allegedly put in place an agreement that they would not poach each other's workers. Back in 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs shot an e-mail off to Eric Schmidt of Google asking why one of Google's recruiters was actively going after an Apple engineer. ...
Things didn't go so well for the Google staffing person was attempting to r
" ... As Apple, Inc. enters its first full year without founder Steve Jobs at the helm, expect one thing not to change: Apple will not be creating large numbers of jobs in the U.S. In fact Apple, which until 2004 did a lot of manufacturing in the U.S., employs just 43,000 people in the U.S. It employs 20,000 people in China. However, the vast majority of the 700,000 contra
... ""Are you Lai Xiaodong's father?" a caller asked when the phone rang at Mr. Lai's childhood home. Six months earlier, the 22-year-old had moved to Chengdu, in southwest China, to become one of the millions of human cogs powering the largest, fastest and most sophisticated manufacturing system on earth. That system has made it possible for Apple and hundreds o
" ... Emails between Apple, Adobe, Intel and others are making them look bad as the US Justice Department mounts a case against them for setting up "anti-poaching" deals in which they allegedly agreed not to hire each other's people away.
The emails are part of the Justice Department's evidence in its class action suit that accuses the tech firms of agreeing not to
" ... According to the founder of Squidoo.com and author or 13 books, the current recession is a forever recession because it's the end of the industrial age, which also means the end of the average worker.
"For 80 years, you got a job, you did what you were told and you retired," says the former vice president of direct marketing at Yahoo! People are raised on this
" ... Scores of workers at the Foxconn factory in Wuhan, China, threatened mass suicide during a protest last week.
Foxconn - which makes a good chunk of the world's tech gear - said that the dispute began after staff were told they would be transferred to another business unit due to a shift in production lines. The electronics manufacturing goliath said that 45 em
" ... President Barack Obama has invited representatives from more than a dozen companies including Ford Motor Co. and Intel Corp. to the White House for a forum today on bringing jobs back to the U.S.
The companies are those that have decided to return jobs from overseas or increase their investments in the U.S., according to an administration statement. As part of