The Big Question is an initiative between Computer Weekly and recruitment consultancy PSD. Each week we put the Big Question to top IT professionals to get their take on a current talking point.
The CBI and TUC have joined forces to promote flexible working as a way of helping the UK economy and making it easier for British workers to benefit from different work patterns, including an improved work/life balance.
Barclays has hired Mark Saunders as its senior technology officer for business banking and global payments as the bank continues to overhaul its IT leadership team.
Over the past 12 months a lot of “experts” have bemoaned the lack of computer science graduates and predicted doom and gloom for the IT industry in the UK because of it.
Businesses reported fewer difficulties recruiting skilled IT professionals in the 2nd quarter of 2006, according to a survey by sector skills council E-Skills UK.