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This year, Amazon was named by LinkedIn as one of the most attractive employers in America, with perks and benefits that include paid time off and a $5,000 check if you decide to quit. For those who think the e-commerce behemoth could be the place for them, FlexJobs has sorted through its list of online postings to see what positions at Amazon offer great pay as well as a remote or telecommuting option. Salary data is from Payscale, and the descriptions are directly from the job listings provided by Amazon. Check the list below to see what high-paying, flexible positions...

Leo Perrero still remembers the humiliation of losing his job. “All of you in this room will be losing your jobs in the next 90 days,” he was told, later recalling the experience before Congress. “Later that same day,” he added, “I remember very clearly going to the local church pumpkin sale and having to tell the kids that we could not buy any because my job was going over to a foreign worker.” Disney replaced Perrero using a little-known and oft overlooked provision of immigration law that allows big tech companies to replace their employees with foreign workers under...

At the University of California's San Francisco campus, 79 IT employees lost their jobs this week, some of them after explaining to their replacements at Indian outsourcing firm HCL how to do their jobs. The union representing the employees, University Professional and Technical Employees CWA Local 9119, says it's the first time a public university has offshored American IT jobs. In a statement sent yesterday, UPTE-CWA says the layoffs could spread, since the HCL contract can be utilized by any of the 10 campuses in the University of California system, the nation's largest public university. "US taxes should be used...

Some time ago I consulted the FR IT experts on how to best enter into the IT field. Here's my situation. I have dual degrees in theology and spent my prime earning years in that field. I got out of the ministry and went back to school and received yet a third degree, this one in business with an accounting major. But I don't think I want to do that. I majored in computer information systems at California State U and think I like IT work better. Here's the advice I got from FR previously: Begin quote: "Get your CCNA...

A major problem with the H-1B debate is the absence of displaced IT workers in news media accounts. Much of the reporting is one-sided -- and there's a reason for this. An IT worker who is fired because he or she has been replaced by a foreign, visa-holding employee of an offshore outsourcing firm will sign a severance agreement. This severance agreement will likely include a non-disparagement clause that will make the fired worker extremely cautious about what they say on Facebook, let alone to the media. On-the-record interviews with displaced workers are difficult to get. While a restrictive severance...

Sorry, IT job-hunters: If you're hoping for surprising predictions about what 2014 has in store, you're probably going to come away dissatisfied. That's because it's unlikely there will be any seismic shifts that completely upend the technology skills, roles, and titles that employers want."There's nothing that I would say is the new 'hottest thing ever' " coming in 2014, said Jack Cullen, president of IT staffing firm Modis, in an interview.Indeed, much of what follows should sound familiar. This could be a good thing. Earth-shattering predictions have a knack for missing the mark. (Apocalypse 2012, anyone?) So the job-market calls...

We all want a great, high-paying job. To make that happen, it helps to be in an area where there are more jobs to fill than qualified people to fill them. We worked with the folks at job hunting site Bright to scout out the places in the country that have the most tech jobs. Bright sifted through 3.5 million job postings, plus government job data. As you can see from the following maps, some cities post a lot of jobs per capita. Watch each map change to see how the job market changed last quarter.

My twenty something liberal Obama voter colleague (with a stay at home wife and two young children) cited this tidbit of news which I'm thinking is as pumped up as the "jobs" numbers at the White Hut--Anybody care to debunk? Largest IT employment gains in four years reported Network World (US) The nation's employment outlook for IT professionals has suddenly surged, gaining 18,200 jobs, the largest monthly increase since 2008, according to tech employment-research firm Foote Partners.

Geeks Give Hillary 'Weasel Award' The Information Technology Professionals Association of America (ITPAA), an advocacy group based in Wilmington, Del., representing professionals in the high-tech field, has handed out its first Weasel Award of 2005 to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. The organization, representing over 1,200 IT professionals nationwide, presents this award to business and political leaders who it believes betray the trust of the American people. Scott Kirwin, founder of the organization, states, "We are tired of Democrats pretending they care about the problems facing average Americans. Senator Clinton’s actions prove they clearly do not." The ITPAA based its...

Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin may have some new competition--and not just from Bangalore, Shanghai and Singapore. The latest kids on the tech block are places like Twin Falls, Idaho; Oklahoma City; and Jonesboro, Ark. These are among the smaller cities or rural areas of the United States where information technology companies have been locating or expanding facilities. The companies, ranging from IT services start-up Rural Sourcing to computer giant Dell, can save on wages in these communities, thanks partly to inexpensive housing there. And in some cases, the companies are pitching operations in midsize America as an alternative to...

IT unemployment through November stood at 5.65%, down one-tenth of a percentage point from October's annualized rate. Analysis of government employment data reveals that computer programmers remain the IT job category with the highest unemployment rate, at 6.54%, down from 6.82% in October. The IT category with the lowest unemployment was computer scientists and systems analysts, which suffered a jobless rate of 5.14% in November. That's down from 5.59% in October, however. The unemployment rate for other IT job categories in November: Software engineer, 5.3% Computer and information-systems manager, 5.34% Network and computer-systems administrator, 5.43% Computer-support specialist, 5.62% Network-systems and...

Do you remember those Information Technology (IT) jobs that were going to take the place in the "new economy" of those outsourced manufacturing jobs? Don't bother to retrain. The IT jobs are leaving, too. Knowledge work can be done anywhere there are educated people. These days, that's just about everywhere: the Philippines, India, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Costa Rica and South Africa. Outsourcing of "new economy" jobs is exploding. A recent article in the Feb. 3 Business Week describes "dazzling new technology parks" on the outskirts of India's major cities, where U.S. companies such as Bank of America, Texas Instruments,...

Like a Rubber Ball: IT Job Skills Squishy in the Year 2002 by Thomas M. Stockwell A new ITAA employment report indicates optimistic IT hiring trends. No one need remind us of the economic downturn that has put so many IT professionals on the streets: The economy for IT sucks, and most analysts at Gartner Group and other consulting firms expect few miracles over the next months. Yet, amid the doom and gloom, the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has released a report entitled "Bouncing Back: Jobs, Skills and the Continuing Demand for IT Workers." On the face of...