(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Technology
- Employment and wage trends in high-tech industries in Massachusetts (12/07/2011)
- Employment in Silicon Valley high-tech businesses, 2000–2009 (10/14/2011)
- Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations, May 2009 (06/15/2011)
- Multifactor productivity in nonmanufacturing industries, 1987–2006 (07/13/2010)
- High-tech employment in Silicon Valley, 2001 and 2008 (09/08/2009)
- BLS Internet site usage over the years (06/30/2009)
- Surgical technologists (07/23/2008)
- Spending on cell phone services now almost the same as residential phone services spending (12/18/2007)
- Productivity growth in selected service-providing industries, 2005 (06/11/2007)
- Productivity growth in information-sector industries, 2004 (07/13/2006)
- Electronic equipment and job-related work at home (10/03/2005)
- Treating cancer with technology (09/15/2005)
- Most common uses for computers at work (09/02/2005)
- High-technology employment (08/31/2005)
- Job searching via the Internet (08/05/2005)
- Computer use at work in 2003 (08/03/2005)
- Fewer information technology layoffs in first quarter (05/25/2004)
- Occupational variation in computer use (06/04/2003)
- Job-search methods on-line (11/21/2002)
- Using the Internet to find a job (11/06/2002)
- Computer use most prevalent in finance industry (10/31/2002)
- Reasons for computer use at work (10/30/2002)
- Over half of workers used a computer in 2001 (10/24/2002)
- Most IT workers have college degrees (10/23/2002)
- Slowdown in computer-services employment growth (06/12/2002)
- High-tech productivity gains in 1990s (05/14/2002)
- Computer use by home workers (03/07/2002)
- Sales engineers: technical expertise plus people skills (09/18/2001)
- Seeing with sound (05/31/2001)
- Surge in demand for troubleshooters (02/27/2001)
- Government and financial industry workers use Internet most
(01/11/2001)
- Internet use highest for most educated (01/09/2001)
- Most likely to be online: 14- to 17-year-olds (01/05/2001)
- Highest productivity growth in computer industry (12/05/2000)
- Productivity rose fastest in computer factories (06/02/2000)
- Concentration of
high-tech employment (08/03/1999)
- High tech doesn't always
mean high growth (07/29/1999)
- High tech, high pay (07/21/1999)
- Abundant career
opportunities projected in information technology (10/28/1998)
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