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Let's say you're a young IT manager, in your 20s, 30s or even early 40s. It's not unheard of for you to put in 10-hour workdays in front of your computer, or some other user's.

Being undervalued in the workplace is the biggest concern of Australian women in IT, according to the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) Women Members Survey.

It was 9:30 on the morning of March 4, 2002, and something was terribly wrong at the offices of PaineWebber UBS. Computers in branches all over the country began showing disc errors. A logic bomb buried deep within the machines had wiped their hard drives clean, preventing 17,000 brokers from making trades.

A new study of more than 1,400 US CIOs found that 11 percent plan to hire additional staff in the fourth quarter of this year, while 3 percent expect cuts.

As many as 8 percent of IT workers have been displaced by offshore outsourcing, either through job loss or an involuntary transfer to a new job by their employer, which is twice the rate of workers in other occupations, according to a study based on data collected from some 10,000 people, which may be the largest survey of its kind.

Anyone who has worked in IT for more than five minutes knows that the field has been in a dramatic transformation for the past 10 years, invading and conquering other organizational domains such as communications and security, while also wrestling with the new issues that technology has wrought such as employee mobility. In most organizations, IT has had to transform itself from a bunch of techies installing and troubleshooting equipment to a key enabler of business strategy and competitiveness.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) on Monday released a report indicating that ICT skills shortages will grow to 14,000 jobs by 2010, and will continue to reach 25,000 by 2020 unless government and industry heighten collaboration to ease the skills shortages.

Tempers flared inside a San Francisco datacenter on Friday, June 20, igniting the greatest public spectacle pitting a lone tech worker against management, media, and the law. Tension between network admin Terry Childs and his managers had been simmering for years and reached a boiling point on one of the hottest days of the summer.

Telecommuting is back on workers' radars in a big way these days, thanks to sky-rocketing petrol prices.

Looking to find one of the hottest IT job tracks in today's downward spiraling economy?

Work-related RSI cases are at an all-time high and the cost to businesses is spiralling, new Microsoft research reveals.

Both young men and women are walking away from secondary school studies that could lead to careers in IT, with young women turning away faster than their male counterparts, according to the Dean of Charles Sturt University's Faculty of Education.

Technology pros looking to find new work or secure their current jobs should get schooled on wireless, Web 2.0 and virtualization while also boning up on business basics.

Information Technology positions have recorded a 4.8 per cent salary increase according to this year's Australian Institute of Management Salary Survey.

Not just professional athletes and actors thank their mothers for helping them succeed. Women in IT also credit their mums for making them realise they could conquer any career -- even the male-dominated high-tech industry.

A new job search Web site that aims to help the cream of Australia's IT crop find specialised positions is doing battle against the anonymous recruiter-ridden job search giants like Seek and MyCareer.