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IT Security Training 'inadequate'
News More than 80 per cent of employees said they were concerned about the risks posed to the network by viruses. First of all with new joiners as part of a standard induction plan and then re-introduced to employees every six months to keep them updated.
[November 8, 2002, 11:22]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
News The government is withdrawing financial subsidies that have encouraged the take-up of home computers by UK employees. Many employees have benefited from the tax exemption to get a computer into their homes, but the Government now wishes to focus...
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
Government And Industry Join In Scheme For IT Skills
News E-Skills UK on Tuesday called for the government, employers and educators to join a new scheme for improving the IT abilities of the 21 million UK employees currently using IT at work. E-Skills UK chief executive Karen Price said that UK employees...
[April 9, 2003, 10:04]
UK Staff In The Dark On Blogs
News Despite a number of high-profile sackings involving employees who blogged about their employers, it seems most UK workers are unaware of how their bosses feel about blogs. According to a survey from research firm TNS for hosting company Hostway, 94...
[September 27, 2005, 11:15]
Brent Fever Hits Microsoft UK
News Employees at Microsoft's UK office are said to be practically queueing up for management training courses after the company brought in David Brent, the infamous manager from the BBC's hit series The Office, to help with training.
[January 23, 2004, 13:55]
Workplace Surveillance Boosts Stress Levels
News 'Big Brother'-style IT systems are now watching half of the UK's employees, fuelling fear and stress in the workplace. For 23 percent of UK employees, these IT systems are used to check the quality of work produced.
[January 9, 2008, 7:36]
Poor Technology Blamed For Longer Working Hours
News With the right solution, employees can access information quickly and easily, which makes options like working from home or on the move that much easier,” he said. More than ten percent of employees are working at least four hours a day outside...
[August 29, 2003, 15:10]
Your Worst Security Threat: Employees?
News More than a third of the worst computer system security breaches at UK companies are from employees, according to government-backed research released on Tuesday. In the CBI Cybercrime Survey 2001, only 25 percent of organisations identified...
[April 23, 2002, 11:49]
UK Ordered To End 'long Hours' Culture
News UK employees currently work an average of 43.6 hours a week, compared with a European average of 40.3 hours, according to a Workplace Employee Relations survey. The directive states that employees cannot work more than 48 hours per week -- although...
[April 29, 2002, 16:52]
High-tech's Thin Blue Line
News The latest research figures from the UK law enforcement agency charged with tackling cybercriminals - a motley mixture of lone hackers, organised criminal gangs and disgruntled employees - makes for pretty grim reading.
[April 5, 2005, 15:50]
Union Criticises Gateway Closures
News Unions have offered to assist workers who are facing redundancy following Gateway's withdrawal from the UK and Ireland, amid concerns that laid-off employees could receive a meagre payoff. The Irish Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical...
[August 9, 2001, 13:15]
Excite UK Has 30 Days To Avoid Closure
News Excite UK has already warned its employees that the company will probably close at the end of December unless a buyer is found within the next 30 days. As one of the UK's early media portals, Excite UK has built an impressive, personalised portal...
[November 13, 2001, 15:46]
IT Managers: We Want Smartphones
News Over half of the biggest companies in the UK are preparing to deploy applications on smartphones used by their employees, with just 8 percent against the move. IT departments, said Terry, are mostly optimistic about extending out corporate...
[January 9, 2003, 16:03]
AOL Prepares For Further Growth
News AOL UK has announced it will expand its Waterford call centre by 125 employees over the coming months, bringing the centre's overall number of employees to 650. AOL UK's Waterford call centre opened in September 1998 with 25 employees.
[September 10, 2002, 16:31]
Employees Value Home PCs Over Gym Membership
News Peter Adams, general manager of PC supplier PeoplePC, which commissioned the study, said: "In the 21st Century e-literacy is as important as reading and writing and the findings clearly show that many employees in the UK would rather have an...
[May 11, 2001, 15:36]
Technological Revolution Causing Depression
News Three out of ten employees in the UK experience work-related mental health problems, with one in every 20 working Britons suffering from major depression, reports the ILO study. The report recommends that the most fundamental step for UK employees...
[October 13, 2000, 10:15]
Senior IT Staff 'fear The Axe'
News Many British employees are very sceptical about their future with a third expecting the UK to head into recession. The figures are based on interviews with 1000 British employees aged between 18 and 65, for the survey Ready for Redundancy by HR...
[October 21, 2002, 16:39]
Union Will Fight To Save UK Mobile Jobs
News Ericsson has around 1,500 employees in the UK. Since outsourcing its phone manufacturing business to Singapore-based Flextronics earlier this year, Ericsson only directly employs 1,500 people in the UK -- these employees are mostly involved with...
[April 20, 2001, 13:48]
Ignorance Of IT Laws Threatens UK Firms
News The research, contained in the Information Security Breaches Survey 2002, published in full today at the Infosec security conference in London, has found a wide lack of understanding of UK laws that protect employees and customers -- and in some...
[April 23, 2002, 16:29]
It's Time For An Inquiry
Leader Former employees talk of working in an information vacuum during the company's dying days. This may not be uncommon in such circumstances, but some former Time employees also say they were told to continue accepting orders for goods that they knew...
[August 5, 2005, 15:35]
