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Phones 4U bans staff from email
News John Caudwell, CEO of high street mobile retailers Phones 4U, announced on Thursday that he'll be banning all his staff from using email across the business. He said he introduced no email policy after seeing staff becoming chained to their...
[September 19, 2003, 9:45]
One in five employers snoop on staff email
News Less then half of the firms questioned allow all office-based staff to use email, with only 20 percent allowing Internet access to all employees, reflecting recent unease in the business world about the use of email and Net facilities at work.
[January 17, 2001, 12:10]
Corporates hiring people to read staff email
News Large companies are now so concerned about the contents of the electronic communications leaving their offices that they're employing staff to read employees' outgoing emails. What worries those in charge of tech most about their staff emails...
[July 22, 2004, 16:00]
Survey reveals email abuse by IT staff and lawyers
News IT staff are the worst email abusers among all professions, with 69 percent of the sample admitting that they would open "suspicious" emails and 42 percent willingly circulating them to colleagues and friends.
[August 15, 2002, 14:42]
Staff suspended for Bart email keep jobs
News Almost all the 70 staff suspended in connection with the "offensive" emails of Bart Simpson in a sexual clinch at the offices of Royal & Sun Alliance were told Thursday they will not be getting the sack after all.
[January 11, 2001, 14:38]
Ballmer's email to staff on latest layoffs
Blog Comment For starters, I'm interested, so, if you have 3 years experience or more in microsoft erp systems, send me an email and let's see how we can help each other. Anyone with proven track of working at Microsoft for at least 3 years and who dealt with...
[July 30, 2009, 19:18]
Ballmer's email to staff on latest layoffs
Blog Comment Is it fair that a company that makes such profits sees it fit to lay off 5,000 workers and not retrain them in any fashion? Times really are hard for many people but really Microsoft haven't really fallen into the "Times are hard" category.
[May 6, 2009, 10:40]
Ballmer's email to staff on latest layoffs
Blog Comment John Molloy said: "Is it fair. When has Microsoft in general, or Ballmer in particular, ever, under any circumstances, been interested in being "fair" in any way whatsoever? jw
[May 6, 2009, 11:17]
Ballmer's email to staff on latest layoffs
Blog Comment Is it me or is the term "job eliminations" just one stop short or "people elimination". Or is because you have to make the job redundant and not the person as such? Either way - nasty business. AB
[May 7, 2009, 7:52]
Phones 4U bans staff from email
Talkback This gentleman needs to take control of his office staff and set rules to minimize wasted time with personal emails and spam. However, to ban all email for the business is, in my opinion, foolish. Anyone who have used email with reasonable controls...
[September 23, 2003, 0:17]
Phones 4U bans staff from email
Talkback Email is fast becoming one of the most waste-ful worktime activities. Emotion and inflection allows for much better communication and cannot be replaced by the written email which is too short many times improperly translated and eludes to less...
[September 23, 2003, 0:24]
Phones 4U bans staff from email
Talkback If you think about it, banning email (and getting free media coverage as a result) is very self-serving of Mr. Email is the natural competitor to the telephone… he’s charging by the minute for his cellular service, where email is effectively free.
[September 23, 2003, 6:10]
Phones 4U bans staff from email
Talkback Sounds like a great idea to me especially when telephone tag is great fun and improves employee moral / efficiency. Unfortunately the CEO has not gone far enough. To maximize the savings I would ban telephones.
[September 23, 2003, 13:23]
News Burst: One in five employers snoop on staff email
News One in five employers may be snooping on their staff emails without their consent, according to a new report published Tuesday. The survey, carried out by KPMG's legal arm KLegal, found 20 percent of employers to be breaking the law by secretly...
[January 17, 2001, 10:40]
Ballmer's email to staff on latest layoffs
Blog After Microsoft announced it would lay off another 3,000 people as part of expected job cuts, CEO Steve Ballmer sent an email to the rank and file. Here is that email, courtesy of Ina Fried at ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.com:
[May 5, 2009, 17:53]
Covert staff surveillance 'illegal'
News Firms that secretly monitor staff email and Internet use are likely to be breaking the law, according to the Information Commission. Where staff are informed, guidelines for monitoring email and Web usage follow roughly the same lines.
[April 9, 2002, 14:28]
'Murder' email lands lawyers in trouble
News The internal email asked staff to note that secretary Natalie Francisco would not be at work on 16 March because she had been murdered. We are using it as an opportunity to reinforce our corporate email policy, encouraging staff to consider their...
[March 23, 2001, 13:49]
Email archiving could break Data Protection Act
News Company directors will be breaking the Data Protection Act if they choose to automatically archive staff email at the point of sending, in order to protect themselves from regulations in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
[April 27, 2001, 8:35]
DWP downplays security breach
Blog When I rang up to get some clarification, a DWP spokesperson downplayed the blog post, telling me that the leaked memo was a standard email to remind staff of security procedures, and that it wasn't in response to a large security incident.
[May 12, 2008, 15:36]
Marshal Case Study: Cawthron
White Papers Increased staff use of email and the Internet meant the organization was more exposed to email and web-borne threats, such as such as spam, phishing, spyware, viruses and DoS (Denial of Service) attacks.
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
