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Ireland hit by New Year job cuts
News Over one hundred workers at a Fujitsu factory in Dublin have had a rotten start to 2002, as they were told on Friday that they were being made redundant. Around 130 workers will lose their jobs. The Fujitsu Isotec plant -- which manufacturers...
[January 4, 2002, 16:14]
HP puts RFID on the rack
News Business executives and bureaucrats are salivating over the potential labour-saving benefits of radio frequency identification technology, and soon technology workers may find reason to be enthusiastic, too.
[November 1, 2004, 7:49]
HP: Layoffs for some, bonuses for others
News Although it plans to lay off thousands of workers if its merger with Compaq goes through, Hewlett-Packard is also offering hefty bonuses to some 6,000 key employees it wants to keep. In a filing on Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
[January 15, 2002, 14:27]
Palm sheds 200 jobs
News Palm cut 19 percent of its work force with at least half of those workers being let go on Thursday. The Milpitas, California-based company confirmed on Thursday that it had let go of about 200 workers over the course of its third fiscal quarter...
[February 28, 2003, 9:02]
VPN Mobile
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[November 21, 2007, 1:37]
Demand for US immigrant work visas rises in 2001
News Demand for skilled foreign workers reached an all-time high in fiscal 2001 -- despite a recession and massive layoffs of American workers. According to federal law, H-1B workers must be paid at least the median wage in their given job category when...
[January 23, 2002, 15:12]
Wi-Fi sends train passengers rushing to first class
News GNER's trial of high-speed wireless networks on selected trains has proved popular with mobile business workers, according to early figures released by the railway operator this week. Kingsland explained that a significant number of mobile workers...
[September 21, 2004, 9:10]
Ford offers amnesty on Internet porn
News Twenty thousand workers at Ford, including 5,500 at Dagenham, have been told to clean up their computers and remove any offensive, including racist, material they have on their machines. This clampdown by Ford was outlined in an email sent to their...
[March 5, 2002, 13:03]
Ford may find that porn sticks around
News Internet filtering experts have criticised Ford's plan to remove pornography from its workers' computers. On 4 March, Ford issued a two-week amnesty to its 20,000 UK workers to remove any offensive, including racist, material either downloaded from...
[March 7, 2002, 14:15]
Tech support costing companies
News Thirty-six percent of white-collar workers spend 30 minutes or more each week on the phone with their companies' technical support services, which costs businesses plenty, according to a new study. The nationwide survey, sponsored by technology...
[July 29, 2004, 11:45]
Microsoft anticipates hiring thousands
News Microsoft expects to hire between 6,000 and 7,000 workers over the next 12 months, the company said on Friday, though it is unclear how many of those hires will be filling new posts. That marked a gain of a little more than 2,000 workers, with...
[July 26, 2004, 11:05]
HP putting 4,000 contractors in limbo
News In an effort to cut costs, Hewlett-Packard plans to lay off 4,000 contract workers this summer in its information technology department and may let many workers go entirely. Some contract workers on other projects have already been let go, Currid...
[June 21, 2002, 10:54]
Windows VPN software allows attacks
News Windows 2000 and Windows XP servers can be attacked through the software ordinarily used to create secure connections to remote workers, Microsoft said on Wednesday. These connections, known as virtual private networks (VPNs), are commonly used by...
[October 31, 2002, 14:18]
Debunking hiring myths
News As a technical recruiter, I'm all too familiar with how uncertain employment has become for many IT workers. If people got paid what they really deserved, social workers and prison guards would be making considerably more than they do.
[October 11, 2002, 16:20]
Are you working too hard?
News More and more UK workers are putting in 60-hour weeks and suffering from stress as a result of the rigours of office life. According to figures released by the Department of Trade and Industry's Work-Life Balance Campaign, UK workers are burning...
[September 2, 2002, 11:08]
Like passwords for chocolate?
News A survey of office workers in London found that almost three quarters would reveal their network-access password in exchange for a bar of chocolate. Clearly, workers are fed up with having to remember multiple passwords and would be happy to...
[April 20, 2004, 8:50]
Technology in the workplace: More important than managers?
News One in four UK office workers believe that IT is the most useful thing in the office, according to a report out today. A third of workers admit to using IT as an excuse for poor performance, 38 percent would refuse to work as hard if their IT...
[October 21, 2002, 11:46]
Downturn may turn techies to crime, say reports
News Impoverished IT workers who have been made redundant will go rogue in 2009, selling corporate data and using crimeware, reports have predicted. The credit crunch will drive some IT workers to use their skills to steal credit-card data using...
[December 12, 2008, 8:05]
Pay-gap report finds females in IT are better off
News Progress on gender pay equality in the UK has stalled, says the government's Women and Work Commission, but senior female tech workers at least have reason to smile, according to new research. Results from last year's silicon.com Skills Survey...
[July 31, 2009, 9:11]
Mobile working is a myth
Blog Comment It’s a really interesting point you raise about tech companies wanting to cash-in on mobile workers while not actually delivering the technologies they need. The fact that both studies cited in the Economist piece were carried out at the behest of...
[June 12, 2007, 12:16]
