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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
IBM unfolds Lotus update
News As previously reported, the new version 6.5 of Notes/Domino Workplace is designed to allow office workers to get more done within the email windows usually running on their PCs. Office workers can see whether a colleague is available online and...
[September 22, 2003, 10:30]
Home Office: Immigration points system 'will benefit UK'
News Intended to make it easier for highly skilled workers from outside the EU to enter the country to work without first having a job offer or sponsor, the new scheme could boost the skilled workforce in the UK, according to the Home Office.
[March 8, 2006, 15:15]
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]
Simon Says
Downloads The problem for employers in developing a strategy to get workers stretching regularly has now been solved. No longer do supervisors have to repeatedly remind workers to have stretch breaks. No longer do group office stretch classes ("office...
[December 2, 2004, 6:00]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News Airside workers will be forced to enrol onto the scheme at London City Airport, the Home Office announced officially on Thursday. Wiltshire said airside workers "would not get the benefit of the voluntary approach" espoused for other citizens by...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
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]
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]
Ballmer touts $500m marketing plan
News Gartner analyst Tom Austin said that although IBM does indeed actively seek out consulting business, it is still developing software to make office workers more productive. Microsoft will spend $500m this year to promote upcoming products designed...
[March 17, 2006, 7:45]
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]
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]
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]
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]
