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Government Urges Work-life Balance Improvements
News Work-life balance (WLB) issues are beginning to be one of the key items on the agenda of many large organisations -- and a concern for workers everywhere. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Work-Life Balance Campaign has shown that...
[May 23, 2002, 10:21]
Microsoft Rewarded For Work-life Balance Effort
News The need for staff to balance their work and personal lives was recognised by all of the best 100 companies. Asda has won the title of best company to work for in the UK in a survey carried out by The Sunday Times.
[March 26, 2002, 17:06]
New Balance Uses HP Workstations To Design Footwear
White Papers Footwear designers at New Balance required powerful, reliable computing hardware and software to help render three-dimensional CAD designs. New Balance needs technology that helps accelerate product development while maintaining customers...
[December 12, 2006, 23:00]
Privacy Vs. Personalization - A Delicate Balance
White Papers Nineteen million people have personalized a Web page, while demands for privacy are as strong as ever.Online businesses face a delicate balance between strong consumer demand for privacy protection and a real consumer desire for personalized...
[October 9, 2003, 0:00]
Finding The Right Balance: Optimizing Training And Performance In The Call Center
White Papers How do you find the right balance? This free web seminar will give you insights into ways to balance these drivers and provide more learning and better skills while positively impacting your performance metrics.
[August 1, 2004, 0:00]
Appropriate Level Of Unreserved Fund Balance In The General Fund (2002)
White Papers It is essential that governments maintain adequate levels of fund balance to mitigate current and future risks (e.g.revenue shortfalls and unanticipated expenditures) and to ensure stable tax rates. Fund balance levels are a crucial consideration...
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
The Bloor Perspective On Work-life Balance
News Last week was National Work-Life Balance Week. The Work Life Balance is the name given to the campaign. One of the most popular ways to gain some work-life balance is through home working - the technology is there, all it takes is for the company...
[October 3, 2002, 17:30]
On Balance, A Very Good Phone, Let Down By Poor Support
Member Review On balance a very good offering. Some things have gone wrong, but the support contract I have with Carphone Warehouse is just not geared to business users in my opinion. Some time ago they had to replace my unit and gave me a bottom-of-the-range...
[September 20, 2004, 15:41]
Nasa Hacker's Fate Hangs In Balance
News The fate of Gary McKinnon, known as the "Nasa hacker", is still hanging in the balance after his appeal against extradition to the US was adjourned at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday evening. McKinnon's future is as uncertain as ever, following...
[February 16, 2007, 12:30]
Copenhagen Energy Holds The Balance: Accuracy In Forecasting Amounts To Cost Savings In Delivery
White Papers Elkraft has 16 partners responsible for balance. As of 1 March 2004, Copenhagen Energy (Kobenhavns Energi) was approved by Elkraft as a balance partner. In Eastern Denmark, it is the Elkraft System that has the overall responsibility for the...
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
Firm Investment And Balance-Sheet Problems In Japan
White Papers This paper investigates whether balance-sheet conditions of firms and their main banks matter for firm investment behavior using dynamic corporate panel data in Japan for the period 1985-95. It finds that smaller non-bond issuing firms were facing...
[September 18, 2003, 0:00]
MySQL CEO Calls For A Balance Between Cash And Community
News MySQL chief executive Marten Mickos has called for a balance between freedom and profit in open source projects, becoming the latest top executive to offer his two cents on making money off software offered for free.
[April 21, 2005, 9:55]
Profits And Balance Sheet Developments At U.S. Commercial Banks In 2003
White Papers Banks profits and balance sheets were shaped in part by the financial and economic conditions that prevailed during the year. The U.S.commercial banking industry remained highly profitable in 2003. The return on assets at banks surpassed the...
[June 22, 2005, 0:00]
US Report: Clinton's Web Plans Hang In Balance After Summits
News That knowledge makes it all the more frustrating to try and balance calls for free speech with privacy and safety concerns, he said, and there are conflicting views on Capitol Hill on how best to do that.
[June 12, 1998, 9:50]
Optimized Testing: How To Balance Quality, Cost And Schedules
White Papers As IT works to balance the business needs for a certain application and the testing limitations with regards to resources and schedules, making the best use of the testing environment becomes critical.
[May 9, 2008, 0:00]
VoIP Regulation Hangs In Balance
Talkback Have you independently confirmed that the following is factually correct? In an op-ed piece that The San Jose Mercury News published on Monday, commissioner Susan Kennedy wrote that "regulators should just keep their hands off" VoIP for now.
[October 28, 2003, 14:32]
Achieving Executive Balance: Nine Ways Leaders And Managers Work Together
Talkback The obvious has been succinctly stated, but what are the solutions? Management tends to be innately aware of its limitations, frequently trying to impose its power over all and sundry for equally obvious ego-driven reasons.
[May 23, 2006, 7:10]
BlackBerrys And PDAs Harm Work/life Balance
News BlackBerry devices and smartphones may have had a huge impact on executive and employee productivity but they also have a negative impact on work/life balance by making it more difficult to switch off from the office.
[July 19, 2007, 7:44]
Yes - More Balance
Talkback Is that really the best you've got? Attacking the messenger doesn't bode well for your chances in court now, does it? Rather than an attempt to distract attention from the *real* merits of this case, perhaps you could explain:
[May 2, 2008, 15:45]
Striking The CRM Balance: Greater Productivity, Lower Costs, Tight Integration
White Papers While early adopters of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies tended to be large-scale enterprises, today’s mid-sized firms are also recognizing that putting their customers at the center of all their business processes is the surest...
[August 12, 2005, 0:00]
