deadmanwalking

I think RSUs are better than cash. In the UK I have a choice, take my bonus as cash and pay a hefty amount for of tax, or take the same pre tax amount as RSUs hold it for a minimum 5 years so that it’s tax free.

David Eddings The Belgariad series ( 5 books) and then the Mallorean series (5 more books) which follows on from the Belgariad. An amazing piece of fantasy writing.

I know of at least one company that has an Ex-fire chief from the US as well as other services specifically to teach IC to IT and other areas - http://www.blackrock3.com/

Really useful training, have had to use it multiple times to coordinate responses ransomware, and other IT disasters, and does benefit from the buy in of senior leadership at the company I work for.

Biggest challenge we have is keeping ICs after deciding to centralise the IC organisation in 3 locations, all ICs were offered the choice to relocate or leave.

We have a lot of very new ICs.

Work at a fortune 500 company, we're currently eliminating USB ports for data devices - but leaving them open for other devices that do not identify as media.

We are dragging people to a corporate cloud solution, however we are finding that the drive to cloud has severely underestimated the volume of data that people will sync across the network, and how much work is done outside official corporate systems and in Excel instead.

This is having 2 effects our network capacity is being drained, and users are reporting performance issues due to latency associated with poorly developed excel applications.