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• Employee stress, workloads, insecurity up in the recession: Hudson

  A new report from recruitment company Hudson has reinforced what most of us take for granted: recessions make staff nervous.

• CIOs' job satisfaction increases despite recession

  Despite having to cope with massive budget cuts, salary freezes and demoralized staffs, most employed IT executives are more satisfied with their jobs this year than they have been in previous years, according to the results of a job satisfaction survey conducted by ExecuNet.

• Survey: glimpses of stabilisation amid dark budget forecasts

  No one has to remind CIOs just how bad the last 10 months have been: New data from our exclusive survey of top IT executives shows that CIOs may have hit rock bottom with their budgeting and cost-cutting measures.

• A/NZ CIOs moving quickly to cut costs: Forrester

  Despite the fast pace of economic deceleration, CIOs have managed to quickly cut costs across the business without having a considerable impact on business outcomes and staff morale, Forrester Research has found.

• Why the recession isn't driving outsourcing prices down

  There has been much discussion about the global economic recession's impact on the price of IT outsourcing services. The consensus has been that buyers keen to cut costs coupled with decreasing demand for IT services would drive prices down across the outsourcing market -welcome news for IT executives under pressure to slash their budgets while maintaining quality.

• GFC creating new opportunities for CIOs: IDC

  Rather than encouraging CIOs to batten the hatches, the global financial crisis (GFC) encouraging ICT leaders to take risks and create new opportunities, according to IDC.

• Job Hunting 2.0: Get Social in a Down Economy

  When Judi Wunderlich was laid off from her managerial position at recruiting firm Aquent in early March, she spent little time looking for work on traditional job sites such as CareerBuilder, Craigslist, and Monster. Instead, she turned to social and business networking sites.