A change to the work permit arrangements for overseas IT workers was announced by Work Permits UK (WPUK) yesterday. Home Office Statement.

Oftel reports that the number of broadband connections has risen from 500,000 to one million over the past six months.

The Inland Revenue has responded to claims in <i>The Times</i> that it favours EDS and Accenture over other bidders for IT projects.

A software company in the USA is being investigated by federal agents to see if they have broken laws protecting foreign hi-tech workers from being underpaid.

A U.S study released last week shows the nation’s high-tech industry fell by 113,000 jobs, or by 2%, for the first six months of 2002.

Many top recruitment companies are worth very little these days. If you had £25m to spare you could buy six of the biggest players!

e-skills UK has published a report detailing the current situation regarding the supply and demand of IT professionals in the UK.

The CBI is calling on the government to halt the massive rise in business taxation, which will cost firms an additional £47 bn between 1997 and 2005.

Xansa, the IT recruitment and outsourcing company has announced a 36% fall in profits over the past 6 months, with around 400 redundancies on the cards.

Following last week's newspaper allegations, The Revenue boss has admitted that his tax records have extra protection from internal "snoopers".