August 30, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
As the U.S. economy continues its sluggish recovery and worker morale sinks, the IT department needs to pay attention to moves that make users even more dissatisfied. One thing that’ll be sure to put ‘em in a bad mood: website blocking.
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Tags: blocking, Robert Half Technologies, survey, users, website, workers
June 9, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The price of technology hardware bearing a stamp “Made in China” could start inching up soon as a movement among Chinese workers for better pay and working conditions begins to spread across the country.
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Tags: China, Foxconn, outsourcing, pay, suicide, technology, workers
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Businesses on the East Coast got a taste of what a small natural disaster can do to productivity and communication when back-to-back blizzards struck. The heroes of the week — besides road crews and power company employees? Companies with telecommuting programs.
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Tags: blizzard, calculator, program, remote, telecommuting, Telework Research Network, workers
November 11, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
If you’ve got users who are non-exempt employees, warn their managers to be careful about when and how often they contact those workers via company-issued mobiles.
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Tags: cell phones, cellphones, non-exempt employees, pay, work-related, workers
October 5, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Every day, millions of people in the United States send text messages while driving. For many, the practice is coming to a screeching halt, because the country’s biggest employer has banned it.
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Tags: ban, cellphone, driving, employees, Federal, law, President Obama, texting, workers
July 21, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
It’s the one-year anniversary of the Terry Childs case and it looks like there are still organizations out there that don’t take the threat of rogue admins seriously enough to prevent the problems they can cause.
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Tags: employees, hacking, IT, Terry Childs, vandalsim, workers
February 9, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The ongoing debate about H-1B visa’s is being fueled by the current recession and ongoing layoffs, especially in technology industry layoffs. And the noose tightened a bit on hiring workers from overseas
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Tags: amendment, employers, H-1B visa, hiring, IT, overseas, senate, wages, workers
June 4, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck
The latest data’s in and it looks like IT jobs are taking something of a hit
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Tags: computer services, Economy, IT, jobs, workers
