Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: July 3, 2007 7:17:40 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback?

[Note:  This item comes from reader Ken DiPietro.  DLH]

From: Ken DiPietro <ken.dipietro () advantaq com>
Date: July 3, 2007 11:06:06 AM PDT
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback?

Courtesy of Slashdot,

//"This week a Deloitte study has shown that high on the agenda of  
CEOs around the world is the shortage of tech talent. Is a shortage  
of talented geeks in the market seeing a return of the dot-com  
culture with foosball tables, beanbags, and inflated salaries used to  
entice talented workers? Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture, the future  
of yesterday. 'Global recruitment companies were telling prospecting  
employees that they were no longer going to be employed just because  
they were a technical guru. They were going to have to learn to  
dress, communicate, and adapt all the traditional corporate ideals  
that IT has been exempt from during the dot-com boom. Fast forward to  
Web 2.0 and while workplaces aren't as cheesy with their decor as  
they were were in the late '90s, and developers aren't getting paid  
$100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys, geeks just aren't  
chuffed with corporate culture.'"

The link contained in the original article leads here:
<http://tinyurl.com/38qe8f>

The link to the original story is here,
<http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/07/07/03/1231246.shtml>



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