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Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

...said. "We're moving to a slightly different world, to commodity-based short-term contracts and one thing we're going to make certain is... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Apple backs away from iPhone SIM-card plan

...competition between operators. It could also have drastically increased the demand for short-term contracts. But the UK phone networks have threatened to stop subsidising... Read more

23 November, 2010 by Asavin Wattanajantra

IT contractors cut out the middle-men

...1 June, enabling freelance IT specialists to negotiate directly with corporations for short-term contracts. It will also provide IT specialists the tools to post... Read more

21 May, 2002 by James Pearce

Temp workers the weakest link in security chain

Short-term contracts, long-term headaches... Companies who employ high numbers of temporary... Read more

11 June, 2003 by Will Sturgeon
Cern CIO: Supporting the LHC's computing backbone

Cern CIO: Supporting the LHC's computing backbone

...it because we like what we do. We have many people on short-term contracts and it's very hard sometimes when people don't... Read more

21 October, 2008 by Nick Heath

2,000 face axe in Orange-Wanadoo merger

...place in the form of "redeployment, natural attrition, non-renewal of temporary short term contracts and, as a last resort, some redundancies". The new Orange... Read more

5 May, 2006 by David Meyer

Demand for IT contractors rises

...rise is partly caused by the summer, according to the report, with short-term contracts more common as full-time workers go on holiday. This... Read more

29 June, 2005 by Tom Espiner

Temp staff pose biggest security risk

...exposure to serious security attacks. Corporate compliance specialist PolicyMatter believes staff on short-term contracts represent the biggest danger to a company because they are... Read more

11 June, 2003 by Will Sturgeon

UK government in breach of European employment law

...We are particularly pleased that the ECJ has concluded that workers on short-term contracts often find themselves in a more precarious situation than those... Read more

26 June, 2001 by Andrew Swinton

Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes

...it because we like what we do. We have many people on short-term contracts and it's very hard sometimes when people don't... Read more

16 October, 2008 by Nick Heath
Incentive-Based Cooperative and Secure Inter-Personal Networking

Incentive-Based Cooperative and Secure Inter-Personal Networking

...WPAN). They regard the user's WPAN as an entity that negotiates short-term contracts on behalf of the user for access services through WPANs... Read more

11 June, 2007
An Efficient Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Quality of Service Networks

An Efficient Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for Quality of Service Networks

...a guaranteed rate; moreover, the network periodically individuates unused bandwidth and proposes short-term contracts where extra-bandwidth is allocated and guaranteed exclusively to users... Read more

4 August, 2006
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Communication Networks

Dynamic Resource Allocation in Communication Networks

...a guaranteed rate; moreover, the network periodically individuates unused bandwidth and proposes short-term contracts where extra-bandwidth is allocated and guaranteed exclusively to users... Read more

14 February, 2006
E-Learning Coordiantor

E-Learning Coordiantor

...for teaching staff or VLE administrative support for the transition teamDraw up short-term contracts and monitor start datesTrack the progress of e-learning assistants... Read more

28 May, 2012
E-Learning Coordiantor

E-Learning Coordiantor

...for teaching staff or VLE administrative support for the transition teamDraw up short-term contracts and monitor start datesTrack the progress of e-learning assistants... Read more

26 May, 2012

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