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• IT workers: Look for the union label?

  The whole concept of labor organising is anathema to many IT professionals. In an industry with a decidedly Libertarian bent, the idea of joining a union strikes many as quaint. For a recent computer science grad with his or her pick of job offers near the six-figure mark, where's the urgency about an issue such as job security? If for some reason such a candidate loses his or her current job, many think, there's plenty more where that came from.

• ROI: You can teach a New Economy old tricks

  In these tough times, customers will no longer trust you on the basis of VC referrals or your phone manner. It's time to prove that your customers need your services. ROI-based sales pitches of the past make a resurgence in the dot-com downturn of the present.

• Tech workers: union challenge

  After years of seemingly futile organising efforts, labour leaders are hoping that the dot-com crash and some unique new training partnerships with high-tech giants will make this the year they can turn the tide and bring the union label into the New Economy.

• What the Dot-Coms taught us

  Solid brand names coupled with strategic online investments gave the bricks-and-mortar contingent the upper hand.

• E-Business in an instant

  From old economy to new economy in as little as two weeks. How today's smartest companies are doing it—and how you can too.

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• ROI: You can teach a New Economy old tricks

  In these tough times, customers will no longer trust you on the basis of VC referrals or your phone manner. It's time to prove that your customers need your services. ROI-based sales pitches of the past make a resurgence in the dot-com downturn of the present.

• IT jobs on the rise: survey

  There is a growing demand for IT executives, according to an Australian jobs index.

• Is IT burnout a thing of the past?

  According to one senior software engineer it’s a “geek thing” — sleeping in the office, physical exhaustion, and mental stress.

• Working in IT: Where has all the fun gone?

  A couple of years ago, the clock struck midnight on the IT industry and computer geeks, who had been hailed as heroes, turned back into being, well, just geeks again.

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