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Computer passwords reveal office workers' secrets
News Choosing a PC password has largely become a psychology test, with most office workers choosing a word that they believe to sum up their personality. The poll, which questioned 1,200 office workers, revealed four distinct categories of people when...
[June 28, 2001, 12:37]
Home Office admits loss of 3,000 workers' data
News The Home Office has lost the names, nationalities, passport numbers and dates of birth of 3,000 seasonal agricultural workers on two CDs in transit to the UK Borders Authority. The incident, which took place in March, was reported to the...
[August 12, 2008, 8:04]
Microsoft workers seek Office suggestions
News Two Microsoft employees have unveiled a crowd-sourcing website inviting suggestions for how Microsoft Office could be improved. Steve Zaske, a product planner on the Office development team, wrote in a blog post on Monday that the site...
[August 12, 2009, 11:50]
The Confessions Survey: Office Workers Reveal Everyday Behavior That Places Sensitive Information at Risk
White Papers A holistic, information-centric security strategy takes people, process and technology into account and has a feedback mechanism. It is not enough to establish policy; actual insider behavior must be measured and tracked against established policy...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Groove Virtual Office Case Study: 100 distributed IT workers stay connected with each other and management
White Papers This specialized, mid sized IT consulting firm services clients nationwide via a distributed network of more than 100 IT consultants. Working on as many as 40 concurrent projects, client teams use Groove to stay connected with management even while...
[December 9, 2004, 2:00]
UK workers paranoid over email surveillance
News A staggering 60 percent of UK office workers believe their IT department regularly intercepts and reads their personal emails -- and almost half believe their colleagues are in on the act in the hope of unearthing juicy gossip.
[March 20, 2003, 14:45]
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]
Security concerns hamper corporate Wi-Fi
News The booming enthusiasm for wireless connectivity among office workers is proving a headache for IT managers. While a wireless LAN can give workers high-speed connectivity away from their desk, it can also create a weak point in the corporate IT...
[October 13, 2003, 16:40]
Poor technology blamed for longer working hours
News Inefficient technology is to blame for office workers spending anywhere between one and four extra hours at work every day, according to a recent survey. The result of these inefficiencies is that almost two-thirds of UK office workers put in an...
[August 29, 2003, 15:10]
IBM prepares a window into your firm
News IBM is developing software designed to give office workers a window into corporate strategy, from the chief executive downwards. The dashboard is meant to give workers a quick way to see whether they are achieving their goals.
[September 28, 2005, 9:20]
Airport workers demand ID card consultation
News Unite, the union which represents workers in the civil air transport sector, wants "full consultation" with airport group BAA after it was revealed it is in talks with the Home Office over the plan. BAA confirmed it was talking to the Home Office...
[February 21, 2008, 7:38]
Adobe takes PDF to the office
News Adobe Systems is aiming to make its Acrobat electronic publishing software a standard business tool with new versions of the product that target different classes of office workers. Acrobat Elements will be accompanied by Acrobat 6.0 Standard...
[April 7, 2003, 8:27]
Gov't U-turns on compulsory ID cards for pilots
News Pilots and other airside workers will not be forced to apply for or carry the cards, the Home Office said in a statement on Tuesday. The government has taken the decision to make identity cards voluntary for airside workers, planned initially at...
[June 30, 2009, 17:44]
City turns away from Office
News Houston has begun to phase out Microsoft Office for its 13,000 city workers in favour of Web-based software from a local start-up. Davis said he expects that many clients will continue to provide Office or similar applications for some power users...
[January 27, 2003, 8:14]
Houston: we have a problem with Office
News Houston has begun to phase out Microsoft Office for its 13,000 city workers, in favor of Web-based software from a local start-up. Davis said he expects that many customers will continue to provide Office or similar applications for some power...
[January 24, 2003, 14:50]
Office gets a Project update
News Microsoft Office Project 2003 can be used with other applications in the upcoming version of the company's market-leading Office productivity package, making it easier for office workers and managers to keep track of large-scale projects, said...
[June 5, 2003, 9:41]
Lazy employees cost businesses dear over PC usage
News The report found that 18 percent of UK-based office workers never turned off their PC when they went home and a further 13 percent frequently left their PCs on. The report found that workers did not turn off their PCs for five main reasons:
[October 6, 2006, 17:15]
Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective review
Reviews The message from Microsoft's Beta 2 preview session held in San Francisco at the end of February is that Office 2003 (previously known as Office 11) will 'transform knowledge workers into information workers'.
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
Gov't announces airport ID-card trials
News The Home Office has announced the first trials of ID cards for airside workers. Airside workers will not be expected to pay for their cards, said the Home Office. James Hall, chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service, said: "Confirming...
[November 5, 2008, 17:17]
Psomas Achieves Global Work-Sharing and Accelerates the Mobile Worker
White Papers This case study describes how Psomas, a leading global consulting engineering firm, implemented Riverbed solutions to accelerate application performance for remote office employees as well as mobile workers.
[September 22, 2009, 16:42]
