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Innovation

Never undervalue your experienced support technicians

Perhaps the biggest IT management oversight in the solar system is the undervaluation of experienced technicians.

CXO

Refuse to under-staff IT departments

Kent Blake offers some tips on how to figure out how many people your support department should have and how to convince management to give you that number

Innovation

Why the first increase in GDP since June of 2008 may lead to future tech turnover

A tech support specialist for a financial firm talks about how the current GDP number is big news in light of four consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth and how it will affect tech workers.

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Never undervalue your experienced support technicians

Refuse to under-staff IT departments

Why the first increase in GDP since June of 2008 may lead to future tech turnover

Hiring kit: Back-end developer

Hiring kit: Application engineer

Employee performance review policy

Employee time off policy