employment in comment and analysis
Analysis: Does ID management invade workers' privacy?
Comment The Employment Code of Practice states that employees should be informed if they are being monitored; have a right to respect for their autonomy and privacy in the workplace; and have a right to expect a degree of trust from their employers. [10 May 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Opportunity and discrimination
Comment The government is planning to outlaw age discrimination in employment. All this kind of thing means that there are plentiful opportunities for ageing IT specialists - pushed out of the traditional employment market - to find challenging work. [13 Dec 2005]
Leader: Is offshoring good or bad for UK workers?
Leader Firstly the official UK employment statistics from the Office for National Statistics show that IT and call centre positions have grown at three times the rate of the national average since 2001 and that redundancy levels have been consistently... [08 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Start-ups and gold miners
Comment It seems that they get an idea, see an opportunity, while at the same time suffering the constraints of employment. Written from Estes Park, Colorado, on a very thin dial-up pipe I just hiked the 2.25km from Longs Peak Ranger Station (in Colorado... [20 Jul 2005]
Leader: IT skills in the UK
Leader It also points to an insatiable need for IT workers, saying employment in the industry will grow five to eight times faster than the UK average.e-skills recommends a lot of sensible-sounding if not earth-shattering proposals, such as making IT... [14 Jun 2005]
Skills Survey 2005: 'Steady as she goes'
Comment Overall the employment scene is looking brighter than in recent years with unemployment down sharply to 1.8 per cent of respondents - compared to 5.3 per cent in 2004 and 2.2 per cent in 2003. The more things change the more they stay the same. [29 Apr 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Valley lessons
Comment Having suddenly had their employment terminated by American companies and corporations they had no choice - it was time to go home. Peter Cochrane, inspired by a recent visit and conference on the US West Coast, asks whether there is hope for... [31 Mar 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved?
Comment We have now reached a situation where the linking of money to student placements and employment of academic staff seems to have bastardised many basic principles of modern education. Education is getting worse and worse in the West, particularly... [10 Mar 2005]
Leader: Closure at the end of the calendar year?
Leader Finally we can say with some certainty that there will always be tribunals about unfair treatment at places of employment, with glamorous, highly-paid roles in the financial and legal sectors as well as high-tech attracting disproportionate... [23 Dec 2004]
Offshoring: Not the end of IT as we know it
Comment Have they actually analysed any demographic, employment and skills requirement data? I spent much of the summer of 2003 holed up in my attic-cum-office trying to write about my experience of outsourcing and India. [06 Dec 2004]
IT employment cycles hard to pin down
Comment IT employment may be cyclical but do the cycles have any consistency? While other sectors languished in the post-Y2K employment slump, the government was sucking up all the IT staff it could find. Then another technical anomaly - the Y2K problem... [25 Oct 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Outsourcing just the latest fashion?
Comment One way is to worsen the terms of employment of the staff and another is to be more efficient. But are companies doing it for the right reasons? Martin Brampton looks at whether sending IT out-of-house lives up to its supposed benefits. [12 Oct 2004]
Devil's Advocate: The failure of IT training
Comment Clearly there are limited employment prospects for people to make a living as historians, but critical skills and an awareness of various forms of society surely have more lasting value than knowledge of a particular programming language. [05 Oct 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.09.04
Round-Up Those were the words of the MyDoom authors who embedded their request for employment in the variant-U and variant-V iterations of their creation. I could do that", spoken by Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale's quintessential Thatcher-era drama 'Boys... [17 Sep 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 2)
Comment We have heard of organisations requiring certain employees to sign undertakings as part of their contract of employment, but the basics such as enforced password changes on all accounts should not be forgotten. [05 Aug 2004]
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