The Fortune 500, the granddaddy of all business listings, touts size over innovation, quantity over quality, staggering profits over contributions to society. Such is life. We’re a “quant” nation – one that celebrates home runs rather than on-base percentage; horsepower over mileage; busty blondes (even if they’re recently deceased) instead of – well, you get… Continue reading
Archive for April, 2007
Which Cyberstate Are You Living In?
The immigration debate is expected to heat up again with the release this week of an employment report showing that the U.S. engineering workforce is almost fully employed. The data runs contrary to the views of pundits who contend that low-wage-paying countries are eating our lunch in high-tech. The Cyberstates report released this week by… Continue reading
Vanilla Views: Meet Mercer’s Global Cities
Quality of living is a highly subjective area of research. Most of us feel we have a pretty good handle on where to live and the decision typically boils down to family roots and possible employment. No one that I know of has chosen where to live (or to repatriate) based upon the results of… Continue reading
H-1B Breaks – Will Feds Fix It?
What if the U.S. government allowed corporations to import global talent without constraints? Quite a few good people would lose their jobs. But somewhere between unrestrained access to global talent and the current annual quota on H-1B visas lies a more beneficial equilibrium. In just two days last week, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services… Continue reading
Portrait of a Graceful, Global Worker
Ten years ago, Joy J. Bellefontaine was fresh out of university, looking for adventure and hoping to ease the burden of student loans. Today, the 35-year-old Canadian is an IT project manager for DHL in Singapore. Spending her entire professional career abroad, Joy has worked as an embalmer in Japan, earned an MBA in Germany and… Continue reading
