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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Rob Bonfiglio <[email protected]>wrote:

> "Even with the weak economy, companies will find it harder to recruit savvy
> workers if they don't let them use their favored technology."
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> I'd like to know what this guy was smoking when he wrote this.  In the US,
> with an unemployment rate of over 10%, if you turn down a job because the
> company won't let you use your "favored technology" then it is the company
> that has benefitted from you turning down the job!
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> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Discuss:
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>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703567204574499032945309844.html
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>> I believe this is more an indictment of the low quality of journalism
>> nowadays.  It's little more than a rant on his employer's IT policies.  In
>> no instance does he discuss the measured effect of IT policies might have
>> within an organization.  He makes vague allusions to the productivity gains
>> users could acheive if allowed to use any software they felt necessary to do
>> their job.  Near the end of the article he does finally discuss some of the
>> valid reasons for constraining users ability to install shiny new software
>> in order to be more "productive."
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