Rarely do employees' enthusiasm for a job run higher than on their first days at the office.
First impressions count.
The Land of 10,000 Lakes has enough boating, fishing, and camping activities to draw any tech-worker who loves the great outdoors. Most companies have managed employee performance information by using paper or non-networked desktop applications, making it difficult to update and distribute that data. There's a trickle-down effect taking place in IT organizations, but it has nothing to do with economics. When it comes to finding a new job, it's often who you know in addition to what you know. Many companies' internal tech-support centers are being overloaded with user queries as the number of applications they support increases.