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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, 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 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' 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]
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 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 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]
Companies Failing To Support Home Workers
News More than one-third of UK companies may be failing to look after home workers adequately, according to a survey of IT directors, the results of which were published this week which warned firms that they must include teleworkers' homes in their...
[September 15, 2005, 15:55]
IT Workers In US 'less Anxious' About Job Market
News Information technology workers' confidence in the job market -- and in their ability to hold on to their jobs -- rose again in August, a study found. IT workers revealed less anxiety about becoming unemployed, according to the report, released by...
[September 2, 2004, 9:50]
Time Crisis: Workers And Customers Share Woes
News Many workers claimed they had been kept in the dark about the scale of the problems. Employees at computer retailer Time have been venting their fury about the state of the company this week, after parent company Granville Technology Group closed...
[July 27, 2005, 18:10]
HP Delays Raises And Cuts Temp Workers
News In an effort to cut costs and meet earnings estimates, Hewlett-Packard is asking managers to delay salary increases, cut back on using temporary workers, and encourage employees to take vacation time, sources close to the company said.
[December 22, 2000, 9:10]
Tech Workers Expect More Money Next Year
News Sixty-two percent of information technology workers surveyed expect raises of between 1 percent and 5 percent next year, according to a report published on Thursday by Brainbench, which provides skills measurement online.
[December 19, 2003, 8:15]
Remote Workers Serve As Lab Rats
News A wireless-networking trade group plans to open an observation lab in a Texas mall next year to collect data on remote workers that could help companies develop new products. The Internet Home Alliance (IHA) said it will open a 2,400-square-foot...
[December 18, 2003, 9:20]
TiVo Revamps Business Plan, Sheds Workers
News A TiVo representative said the company had a work force of about 350, including temporary and contract workers. Digital video recorder company TiVo announced new operating plans Thursday that include laying off 80 employees, about a quarter of its...
[April 6, 2001, 7:53]
Angry O2 Workers Disrupt AGM
News In a heated atmosphere, O2 board members were labelled "fat cats" by shareholding workers, who are unhappy that pay is being frozen for some employees while top bosses are awarding themselves bonuses.
[July 28, 2005, 13:15]
More Unrest Seen Among Tech Workers
News In a study of employees at several large tech companies, researchers found that workers view their employers in an increasingly negative light -- mainly because managers don't understand the reasons employees are upset.
[February 9, 2003, 16:46]
Offshoring Fears Hit US IT Workers, But Unemployment Is Down
Talkback Is the number of tech workers actually dropping, or are the HTML coders, script "developers", and other such inexperienced juniors just finally realizing they aren't "computer people" like some tech schools promised?
[October 7, 2004, 17:31]
German Shop Workers Serve Customers Better And Drive Sales With New Solution
White Papers Today, shop workers using the new scales deliver a rapid checking-out service while providing detailed product information and advice that adds to the customer experience. Kaufhof Warenhaus, based in Germany, has achieved success in the retail...
[December 2, 2007, 23:00]
Amazon Gives Cut Workers More Time To Sign
News Amazon.com workers recently cut from the online retail giant now have more time to consider a separation agreement that has raised the hackles of employees and labour advocates alike. Last week, Amazon announced that it would lay off 1,300 workers...
[February 9, 2001, 8:19]
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]
