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Workers using email for sex talk
News However, 78 percent of the 524 survey participants disagree that workers should be allowed to access online sexual material, with women again more strongly objectionable than their male counterparts. The survey also found that 76 percent of...
[January 24, 2002, 9:59]
Workers protest over call-centre outsourcing
News Hundreds of BT directory enquiry employees who are members of the Communications Workers Union walked out of their offices between 11.30 a.m.and 2 p.m.on Thursday in protest at BT's plan to open call centres in India.
[March 20, 2003, 15:40]
Workers' Details Sold For £2.20
Blog The Consulting Association, which sold over 3000 workers' personal data, is to be prosecuted for breaching the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) revealed The Consulting Association sold personal data, including...
[July 17, 2009, 20:03]
Workers mired in email wasteland
News The survey, released on Thursday by research firm Gartner, said workers spend an average of 49 minutes per day managing email and that 24 percent spend more than an hour per day on this task. Maurene Caplan Grey, a senior analyst for Gartner, said...
[April 20, 2001, 8:48]
Workers, managers at odds over email - or are they?
News Contrary to what you'd expect, fewer workers than managers are convinced that email increases productivity, but the credibility of a survey supporting this finding is in question. According to a survey of 3,000 employees from four Asia-Pacific...
[April 18, 2002, 14:37]
Workers clueless about security
News E-commerce firms in the UK are in a poor state of health because workers are ignoring security risks, according to research released Wednesday by computer security firm Network Associates. The research, which questioned IT managers within UK e...
[November 23, 2000, 10:07]
Workers' use of Internet rises sharply
News Office workers have become a significant part of the business plans of online businesses, and the new study indicates that this interest may be justified. Workers spent about seven hours online during February 1999, about an hour more than last...
[April 9, 1999, 9:42]
EU help possible for Dell Ireland workers
Blog Dell’s workers unemployment in Ireland could get help from the European Union. The European globalisation fund was set up to help member states retrain workers who lose their jobs when companies relocate outside the EU or to help them if the jobs...
[January 12, 2009, 17:06]
Council workers shown the door over Web abuse
News Five council workers from the Wirral, Merseyside, have been suspended over allegations they were using council computers to download and view pornographic images. The five workers are currently suspended pending further investigation.
[October 28, 2002, 17:14]
Workers on the move can get into new Groove
News In tandem with the release, Groove has changed the name of its product to "Groove Virtual Office", which the company says reflects how the product is being used by spread-out teams of workers. The Groove software allows workers to get updates of...
[July 8, 2004, 17:05]
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers would be given cut-price high-speed Internet connections at home as part of a series of radical proposals published on Tuesday by Centre for Reform, a UK think tank.
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
One.Tel sacks one thousand workers
News They will be marching them out at 11 o'clock," Communications Union organiser Sean Rahui told ZDNet as he made his way to inform workers of their dismissal. Rahui said a good proportion of the one thousand sacked workers would be Sydney based...
[June 11, 2001, 11:26]
IT workers' dough isn't rising
News The salaries of rank-and-file technology workers have been stagnating for more than a year, and new evidence shows that paychecks in some tech hubs are actually shrinking. The survey concentrated on tech workers in Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, New...
[October 24, 2001, 11:12]
IT workers grow in optimism
News Information technology workers in the United States are lifting their chins. At least that's the conclusion of a recent study by staffing company Hudson, which found that IT workers had greater confidence in the employment market last month than...
[August 16, 2004, 14:25]
IT recruiters claim over-reliance on foreign workers
News The number of technology workers from outside the EU entering the UK has increased by 14 percent in the past year. According to the Association of Technology Staffing Companies' (Atsco's) figures, 38,450 UK work permits were issued to non-EU IT...
[March 13, 2008, 10:24]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News A pilot programme of the government's National Identity Scheme, which covers airside workers, will be compulsory at one of the two participating airports. Airside workers will be forced to enrol onto the scheme at London City Airport, the Home...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
Public-sector workers may barter labour online
News Downing Street policy advisers are working on plans for an online market place that would allow public sector workers to sell their labour and skills to local authorities and government departments. Qualified professionals, such as child care...
[August 24, 2004, 15:45]
Secure wireless workers
News Yet, as more and more homes get wired and workers grasp the benefits of wireless Internet access, the focus of electronic thieves will shift to these home networks. During the Internet boom soothsayers said that we would all have high-speed...
[August 15, 2002, 9:47]
Bush hints door may open for more tech workers
News Details of President Bush's plan to tackle illegal immigration remain fuzzy, but the programme could create a new way for technology employers to bring in foreign workers. If so, the stage will be set for another round of debates about the practice...
[January 21, 2004, 13:59]
Danger: The IT ghosts of workers past are lingering
News Ghosts of millions of former workers populate the databases of corporations. The workers have moved on, but their ghosts linger, awaiting a hacker intent on using the ghost's identity to damage the company's network systems.
[July 22, 2002, 10:14]
