Business Services Industry

The back-office blues. (recruiting and keeping technology support personnel)

Crain's New York Business, March, 1997 by Walsh, Mark

Tight market for recruiting and keeping technology support staffs causes firms to raise salaries and offer plenty of perks Harris Tilevitz knows what it's like to bejilted in the information age. "I just lost my main networking person," laments the director of technology for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom of an unexpected staff departure.

The erstwhile network manager was lured away from the big Manhattan law firm by a small computer company offering him generous options prior to its expected initial public offering in a year. "How do you compete with that?" asks Mr. Tilevitz. Skadden Arps will no doubt survive, but corporate technology chiefs and human resources directors across New York City can probably sympathize with Mr. Tilevitz's situation. In the midst...

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