Appeared in: ITWire
Author: Beverley Head
Date: February 2012

Unless you have SAP skills or cloud experience it’s time to mothball any lingering hopes you may have had for a pay rise this year.

The Peoplebank Salary Index for March, which is released today, shows that the pay on offer for around 50 different IT roles is pretty much flat – and it’s expected to remain that way for the rest of the year.

Appeared in: The AFR
Author: Paul Smith
Date: February 2012

The chief executive of Australia’s largest IT contractor provider has warned that pockets of skills shortages will continue to trouble our businesses throughout the year.

This would be the case despite a softening in demand for technology workers across the country.

Appeared in: The Australian
Author: Jennifer Foreshew
Date: February 2012

SALARIES in more than 50 technology job categories in the Sydney market have remained flat, with demand dampened by reduced activity in the financial services sector, a survey finds.

Sydney and Melbourne, the major hiring markets, have been affected by the financial services sector lull that has cut large numbers of jobs since the beginning of the year.

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Appeared in: NETT
Author: Luke Telford
Date: February 2012

Thanks to the internet – and especially to social media – staff now have more distractions to choose from than ever before.

Although some businesses have responded to this with restrictions and guidelines, others have chosen to change how they gauge staff productivity to accommodate what they see as part of a modern workplace.