Economic Conditions news from FierceCIO

Latin America is a burgeoning market for outsourcing, and there are many good reasons for it. However, the region also poses a number of risks and costs that vendors are unlikely to publicize, Read more...

The way IT professionals think about their job has changed steadily over the past five years. For IT managers, job satisfaction fell dramatically from 2008 to 2009, and since then the number of Read more...

If you are in the front office, don't get too comfortable. A new survey finds that compensation for CIOs is declining. It's almost as though we didn't have to tell you this. But if you think you are Read more...

The cost was $200 million, but the investment may be worth much more than that. On Tuesday, a Russian investment firm called Digital Sky Technologies made the investment in the social networking Read more...

This week we report on an article about the impact that baby boomers will have on the workplace when they retire. And if you are not ready for this seismic change, you are in trouble because baby Read more...

Yahoo is in a layoff mode and so is Microsoft. But a new poll of senior technology professionals found that more than 50 percent of those surveyed are currently hiring. The survey, conducted by Read more...

A new CIO.com report finds that more than half of IT heads surveyed (53 percent) plan to slash budgets in response to unfavorable economic conditions. That number is up from 40 percent in the Read more...

A sizable majority of C-level technology executives believe the industry is being hit hard by the economic downturn and the effects will not be resolved in the short run, according to a new survey. Read more...

Research firm Gartner predicts that the depressed economy will make IT organizations careful about their hiring plans. A newly released survey of 285 U.S.-based IT organizations found that 57.9 Read more...