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Overwork And Burnout Bowl Over UK IT Directors
News Research conducted by Mercury, the IT software and services company, and the Manchester Business School found that 13 percent of UK IT directors are working more than 60 hours a week, compared to just 3 percent in France and 2 percent in Germany.
[April 1, 2004, 18:00]
UK Ordered To End 'long Hours' Culture
News The UK working week could be shortened, as the European Commission has ordered the government to close legal loopholes in its labour laws. The government has been given two months to comply, following a case brought against by the union, Amicus...
[April 29, 2002, 16:52]
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 The UK's high-tech workers are still working far harder than the 'average' 35-hour week -- with a significant proportion going over the maximum suggested by EU law. These figures are broadly in line with the results of last year's survey, showing...
[March 25, 2003, 16:36]
Site Aims To Prove Lunch Isn't Just For Wimps
News Workers in the UK put in more hours than those in any other EU country, and the lack of a proper lunch break is affecting quality of lives -- and work, according to the gone2lunch campaign. Neil Watson, spokesman for gone2lunch, told silicon.com...
[February 11, 2003, 9:15]
Overworked IT Managers Risk Blunders Or Burnout
News According to research released on Wednesday, nine out of ten IT managers in the UK regularly exceed the 48-hour working week specified by the European Working Time Directive. A lack of resources was the most common reason given for working extra...
[August 2, 2001, 12:45]
IT Burnouts Work Less To Escape Stress
News Ninety percent of IT managers in the UK work over the 48-hour working week specified by the European Working Time Directive, and one in four regularly working over 60 hours a week. Another 12 million opted to work fewer hours in exchange for a pay...
[April 23, 2003, 10:25]
Government Urges Work-life Balance Improvements
News These include: flexi-time staggered hours time off in lieu compressed working hours shift-swapping self-rostering annualised hours job-sharing term-time working working from home tele-working breaks from work
[May 23, 2002, 10:21]
Poor Technology Blamed For Longer Working Hours
News The result of these inefficiencies is that almost two-thirds of UK office workers put in an extra hour or more per day, which over the course of a year amounts to an extra 30 working days a year, most of which are unpaid, WRQ said.
[August 29, 2003, 15:10]
MS Pledges To Fight UK Skill Shortage
News The focus will be on out of hours training, home study and 'fast track' courses so that contractors don't have to miss out on paid working hours. Walsh added that the number of people qualified in NT Server in the UK doubled in the last 12 months.
[September 25, 1997, 12:00]
A Year Ago: Microsoft To Fight UK Skill Shortage
News The focus will be on out of hours training, home study and 'fast track' courses so that contractors don't have to miss out on paid working hours. Walsh added that the number of people qualified in NT Server in the UK doubled in the last 12 months.
[September 25, 1998, 6:50]
Chinese Translation Service Stutters Into Life
News At launch, the service was offered on US and UK telephone numbers, but although initial reports were positive it was unavailable for least 10 hours prior to the time of writing; callers were asked to speak the phrase in their language, but after a...
[August 7, 2008, 17:24]
Teleworking 'is Good For Your Health'
News Drawbacks for teleworking included concern at increased working hours, and home-based teleworkers felt isolated from "social and professional interaction in the workplace" which, they said, can be demotivating and depressing.
[October 14, 2002, 18:17]
IDF - Day Zero
Blog There's lots on Intel in China - 7000 people, $3.8 billion invested, local R&D working in lots of areas - but less on things that may tickle the average UK reader. Some bright spark has asked the hotel to provide alarm calls for everyone.except UK...
[April 16, 2007, 6:55]
Vonage Brings VoIP Service To The UK
Talkback After extensively looking a Vonage as a potential home service of VoIP services in the UK, I noted a few question that I wanted answering. One further point, after hours of trawling through your FAQ's I stumbled across your very cheeky (if not...
[February 17, 2005, 9:48]
Teleworkers Get New Employment Safeguards
News The agreement, which was signed in Brussels and will be implemented within three years, affects employees of multinationals, but is also expected to form a general framework at European level for all teleworkers' working conditions, with the...
[July 18, 2002, 14:50]
Inside The Notebook Of 2006
News At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week Anand Chandrasekher, vice-president and general manager of the company's Mobile Platforms Group, spoke to ZDNet UK about the future of notebook design, broadband wireless access and how to...
[February 19, 2004, 9:35]
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]
IT Illiteracy Drags On UK Economy
News The UK is losing millions of working hours a week due to a lack of basic IT literacy, according to a report published on Friday by City & Guilds, the UK's principal body for work-related accreditations.
[November 7, 2008, 14:19]
A Sad Truth.
Talkback I personally don't mind working a few extra hours here and there but it can get out of hand. The whole workplace is getting very competitive and if uk workers get complacent the work just moves elsewhere in the world.
[January 7, 2008, 10:48]
