Cynthia Morgan Quotes (13 Quotes)

Just about everyone wants to strike out on their own sometime. But they won't do it for the money -- what they're looking for is more control over their professional lives.

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.

The best for me is word of mouth, because all who know my work know how good I can be at what I do. It also makes the interview easier, because they've heard about me from someone else and know it's not just me boasting. I still dread looking. It's troublesome to be turned down for any reason, good or bad.

We also saw a lot of differences according to pay levels. In general, workers making 100,000 annually wanted government to keep out of the temporary non-U.S. worker situation.

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.

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

The controversy in the IT (information technology) career sector over the H-1B visa has again come into stark relief, as techies.com releases a new survey of more than 1,100 tech professionals. The techies.com site is a leading hub of IT industry issues. And the tech workers we surveyed, ... think it can affect their job security and pay scales.

Most people, ... saw company layoffs coming. Only a third said it was a complete surprise and about a quarter said they'd been waiting for the axe to fall on their jobs.

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.

And 39 percent said they'd take a pay cut if they were allowed to telecommute. Even if they had to take that pay cut, ... our telecommuters might come out ahead, since several also told us that telecommuting has reduced their costs for gas, auto maintenance, parking, tolls and even clothing.

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

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

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 suppo