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Long-hours culture saps tech productivity
News Working long hours is having a negative impact on many UK tech workers as it hits morale and cuts into valuable leisure time. Just over half of respondents (51 percent) said the long-hours culture in the UK affects productivity and 42 percent said...
[February 19, 2008, 9:28]
UK techies: Long hours reap rewards
News Despite the long hours, IT staff continue to enjoy decent salaries. A meagre 5.1 percent of the respondents to this year's silicon.com Skills Survey work fewer than 35 hours a week. More than 34 percent put in 35 to 40 hours; 28.4 percent 40 to 45...
[March 25, 2003, 16:36]
Networking survey finds working long hours endemic
News Of the 201 network professionals interviewed, up to half work hours in excess of the limit of an average of 48 hours a week outlined by the European Working Time Directive with 6 percent claiming to work in excess of 60 hours a week.
[July 3, 2002, 11:35]
Nicest monitor I've ever had to work long hours in front of
Member Review I've had one at work for about a year and a half and it's great. No eye fatigue and very crisp text. I liked it so much I bought one for at home just recently when the prices finally hit $300. I plan on using it with a KVM to replace my 20in.
[April 14, 2005, 10:59]
UK ordered to end 'long hours' culture
News The directive states that employees cannot work more than 48 hours per week -- although certain professions including healthcare and the media are exempt, and workers can chose to opt out and work longer.
[April 29, 2002, 16:52]
Micro Animals
Downloads Do you work long hours on your computer and need a bit of company? Now you can have your own friend keeping you company all hours of the day (well as long as your computer is switched on). A simple yet fun way of keeping those long hours from...
[May 11, 2006, 16:14]
Overwork and burnout bowl over UK IT directors
Talkback If managers are working very long hours and staff are working very long hours and productivity is low, then.what the managers are doing in their long hours must be counterproductive. "UK productivity is still relatively poor.
[April 3, 2004, 13:18]
IT staff's overtime levels exposed
News The UK Trades Union Congress has once more hit out at employers who abuse their authority to keep staff chained to their workstations long outside their contracted hours. Working long hours can affect people's health, put a strain on their home...
[February 22, 2005, 8:10]
Are women cracking IT's glass ceiling?
News The tech industry has a history of pay inequity between men and women, and because many women techies grapple with both home and family needs, the long hours required of a tech job often prevent them from reaching their long-term career goals.
[January 21, 2002, 16:31]
Friday
Blog It's been a long week, but I've got a couple of spare hours to play with a new toy that arrived earlier. He sent me a long list of instructions, part of which involved going into Safe Mode on Windows XP to tamper more effectively with its innards...
[November 8, 2002, 16:51]
Overwork and burnout bowl over UK IT directors
News Even though Britain's IT leaders are the worst offenders in Europe for working long hours, UK productivity is still relatively poor. One IT director contacted by ZDNet UK confirmed that long hours are often the norm.hours?
[April 1, 2004, 18:00]
IT burnouts work less to escape stress
News The trend is one of the after-effects of Britain's Internet-fuelled economic bubble, which saw employees putting in increasingly long hours and finally burning out, according to Datamonitor analyst Dominik Nosalik, author of the report, entitled...
[April 23, 2003, 10:25]
Freeserve ads 'misleading', says ASA
News The ASA claimed the offer is "misleading" -- some might say untruthful -- in that surfers were being disconnected after two hours online or ten minutes of inactivity, making a mockery of the "as long as you like" claim.
[September 11, 2002, 10:34]
Comms kit takes to the Alps for ultramarathons
News The trail, 166km long, takes runners up and down for a total distance of 9.4km. A maximum of 46 hours is allowed for completion. The winner of this year's UTMB was Catalan runner and mountaineer Kilian Jornet, who completed the course in just under...
[September 8, 2008, 12:56]
Net attack flops, but threat persists
News Monday's assault took down seven of the 13 servers for as long as three hours, according to Internet performance measuring service Matrix NetSystems. According to security experts, a more sophisticated attack could have disrupted the root servers...
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
Power to the people: ZDNet's guide to notebook batteries review
Reviews The simple fact of notebook life is that systems simply don't run for as long on their batteries as we'd like -- even long-lived notebooks, such as IBM's ThinkPad X31, last only 8 hours on two batteries.
[April 14, 2004, 10:00]
Smartphone laptop release announced
News Through some engineering and design advances, the cPC's battery lasts long enough to let users run applications simultaneously for eight hours or more, he said. The cPC is 6.5 inches long, 3.3 inches wide, 1.2 inches thick and has a 5-inch diagonal...
[December 16, 2005, 12:50]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Slowly I felt after long hours of chat with the customers for many days. I told my supervisior "I dont care about AHT and I will provide high quality and improve on my accent".and I decided to help the customer dosent matter how long I 'd have to...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
Logitech Mobile Bluetooth Headset review
Reviews Although the talk time of seven hours isn't quite as long as the Plantronics M3000's claimed life of eight hours, it's pretty close and the M3000 doesn't have as long a standby time. Logitech claims the standby time for the Mobile Bluetooth Headset...
[January 8, 2004, 9:15]
Security warning too quick for comfort?
News In any event, two hours is not sufficient. Network protection company Internet Security Systems published a security advisory for Apache, the Internet's most popular Web server, and gave the Apache Foundation, which created the software, less than...
[June 18, 2002, 9:21]
