Tags Results for 'employees'

RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers (Saturday 27th of December 2008 05:15:01 AM)

Theodp writes "Taking a page from the insanely-jealous-husband-playbook, Motorola supervision
has adopted an if-I-can't-have-you-nobody-can stance on its fired employees, reportedly
blocking RIM from charity jobs to laid-off workers. In a grievance - ... (more)

Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 07:30:01 AM)

An nameless reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss
Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot
more slowly than any one thing else, necessarily, as one ... (more)

Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format (Sunday 05th of October 2008 07:15:01 AM)

What about sends in a Groklaw alert warning that, by PJ's reading, Microsoft may be trying to
take over ODF via a stacked SC 34 committee. The article lists the attendees at an SC 34
meeting in July and gives their affiliations, which the official ... (more)

Has Google Lost Its Mojo? (Tuesday 26th of August 2008 02:30:01 PM)

CWmike writes "Google looks as if it's on top of the world right now, holding an
ever-increasing lion's share of the search market. So why do I think it's lost its mojo? Let's
start with the way it treats its employees, writes Preston Gralla. Another ... (more)

In a small town in the US, ... (Sunday 27th of July 2008 12:10:02 AM)

In a small town in the US, there is a rather sizable factory that hires only married men.
solicitous about this, a local woman called on the manager and asked him, "Why is it you limit
your employees to married men? Is it because ... (more)

Urban Towers Business Complex in Irving Opens Primary Care Clinic for Tenants and Neighbors (Saturday 24th of May 2008 07:00:06 PM)

Urban Towers Primary Care and CB Richard Ellis declare the opening of a primary care clinic in
the Urban Towers buildings in Irving, Texas. The Urban Towers Primary Care clinic offers all
tenants' employees and their dependents affordable primary care ... (more)

In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails (Monday 14th of April 2008 10:30:01 AM)

Numerous readers noted the proposal by the Australian executive for lawmaking to allow
employers to snoop on employees' email and IM conversations. This is being proposal in the name
of protecting the support from terrorism. The attorney-general cited ... (more)

FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics (Sunday 23rd of December 2007 05:15:02 PM)

MacRonin sends us to the uncle sam* Post for a story about the FBI's plans for a large
biometric identification database. The Post also has a chart rendering the characteristics of
the different methods of identification. We discussed the ethics of a ... (more)

Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle (Tuesday 04th of December 2007 10:45:04 PM)

Statemachine writes in with a story from Silicon Valley about how Intel and Cisco, among other
companies, are experimenting with cubeless, open, and unassigned seating. "Beginning this
month, [Intel] will set up three experimental work sites. Open areas, ... (more)

Even the Masseuse is a Multimillionaire at Google (Tuesday 13th of November 2007 01:30:07 AM)

PCOL writes "The NY Times is running a story on how stock options that have given an surmised
1,000 mentors at Google a net worth of $5 million each affects the culture at Google. Google
gives each of its new employees stock options, ... (more)

One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies (Thursday 01st of November 2007 11:45:07 AM)

BaCa writes with a link indicating that a survey of white collar US workers shows that
individual like a third of all employees break IT policies. Of those, almost a sixth truly used
P2P technologies from their work PCs. Overall, the survey indicates ... (more)

Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You (Wednesday 17th of October 2007 08:45:02 PM)

Coondoggie writes "This is the kind of news that your HR folks don't want to hear, but
researchers today said letting workers swear at will in the comfort design can benefit
employees and employers. The study found regular use of profanity to express ... (more)

Ten Questions Employees Should Ask About Employer-Sponsored Insurance Benefits During Open Enrollment Season (Wednesday 10th of October 2007 07:30:08 AM)

Reward withdrawal can present health center with an increasingly complex set of money
decisions each year. Many employees tend to focus on long-term life-care home savings by
enrolling in or adjusting their 401(k) plan allocations. Others may concentrate ... (more)

Don't Let Your Boss Catch You Reading This (Wednesday 29th of August 2007 06:39:28 PM)

Stony Stevenson writes "iTnews is running a piece on the culture of cyberslacking in the
business arena. Studies worldwide suggest employees spend about a fifth of their work shifts
engaging in personal activities. Most of that 'wasted time' is, of course, ... (more)

 

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