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e-Working For a Living

By Stanley P. Jaskiewicz

No one would deny that those in the e-commerce economy 'work hard for the money,' in the words of nascent e-commerce entrepreneur and one-time disco queen Donna Summer.

But is 'workin' for a living' any different for an e-commerce manager or executive than for the rest of us? And following the cue of rocker Huey Lewis, a resident of dot-com haven San Francisco, are tech employees just 'taking what they (employers) are giving' like so many others in the competitive world that we have made for ourselves, or do they negotiate specific compensation and benefits suited to their working conditions?

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